PL equivariant surgery and invariant decompositions of 3-manifolds

DOI10.1016/0001-8708(89)90067-4zbMath0682.57005OpenAlexW2080541323WikidataQ29397743 ScholiaQ29397743MaRDI QIDQ1824243

William Jaco, Joachim Hyam Rubinstein

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-8708(89)90067-4

zbMATH Keywords

normal surfaceshierarchiesEquivariant Sphere TheoremG-invariant characteristic submanifoldG-invariant prime decompositionHaken-manifoldsleast weight surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact Lie groups of differentiable transformations (57S15) Finite transformation groups (57S17)

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