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Canonical decompositions of 3-manifolds

Walter D. Neumann, Gadde A. Swarup

math.GTarXiv:math/9712227

Abstract

We describe a new approach to the canonical decompositions of 3-manifolds along tori and annuli due to Jaco-Shalen and Johannson (with ideas from Waldhausen) - the so-called JSJ-decomposition theorem. This approach gives an accessible proof of the decomposition theorem; in particular it does not use the annulus-torus theorems, and the theory of Seifert fibrations does not need to be developed in advance.

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