We define an invariant, which we call surface-complexity, of closed 3-manifolds by means of Dehn surfaces. The surface-complexity of a manifold is a natural number measuring how much the manifold is complicated. We prove that it fulfils interesting properties: it is subadditive under connected sum and finite-to-one on P^2-irreducible manifolds. Moreover, for P^2-irreducible manifolds, it equals the minimal number of cubes in a cubulation of the manifold, except for the sphere S^3, the projective space RP^3 and the lens space L(4,1), which have surface-complexity zero. We will also give estimations of the surface-complexity by means of triangulations, Heegaard splittings, surgery presentations and Matveev complexity.
Titolo: | A 3-manifold complexity via immersed surfaces |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2010 |
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Abstract: | We define an invariant, which we call surface-complexity, of closed 3-manifolds by means of Dehn surfaces. The surface-complexity of a manifold is a natural number measuring how much the manifold is complicated. We prove that it fulfils interesting properties: it is subadditive under connected sum and finite-to-one on P^2-irreducible manifolds. Moreover, for P^2-irreducible manifolds, it equals the minimal number of cubes in a cubulation of the manifold, except for the sphere S^3, the projective space RP^3 and the lens space L(4,1), which have surface-complexity zero. We will also give estimations of the surface-complexity by means of triangulations, Heegaard splittings, surgery presentations and Matveev complexity. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11389/1553 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |