Intersection calculus on surfaces with applications to 3-manifolds

DOI10.1090/memo/0282zbMath0518.57008OpenAlexW2059727896MaRDI QIDQ3667626

John Hempel

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0282

zbMATH Keywords

non-Hopfian groupsfundamental groups of 3-manifoldsPoincare conjectureduality theorem for peripheral group systems of 3-manifoldselementary ideal for a 3-manifold with non-toroidal boundaryReidemeister pairing for the action of a group on a surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10) Duality in algebraic topology (55M05)

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