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Gauss diagrams of 3-manifolds

Anna Klebanov

math.GTarXiv:math/0308055

Abstract

We present a simple combinatorial method to encode 3-dimensional manifolds, based on their Heegaard diagrams. The notion of a Gauss diagram of a 3-manifold is introduced. We check the conditions for a Gauss diagram to represent a closed manifold and a manifold with boundary.

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