A Simple Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Kirby Calculus on Links

DOI10.2307/2154000zbMath0764.57011OpenAlexW4234835371MaRDI QIDQ3993846

Ning Lu

Publication date: 13 August 1992

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2154000

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldKirby calculusHeegaard decompositionsKirby movessurgery on a linkpresentation of the mapping class group of a surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Related Items (4)

On central extensions of mapping class groups ⋮ A survey of the homology cobordism group ⋮ An elementary approach to the mapping class group of a surface ⋮ A geometrical presentation of the surface mapping class group and surgery

Cites Work

• On Kirby's calculus of links
• A representation of orientable combinatorial 3-manifolds
• A simple presentation for the mapping class group of an orientable surface
• Rational surgery calculus: Extension of Kirby's theorem
• A calculus for framed links in \(S^3\)
• Modifications and Cobounding Manifolds
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