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Casson-Gordon and Reducing Heegaard Splittings
Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar| Speaker: | George Mossessian, UC Davis |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Wed, Oct 10 2012, 4:10PM |
I will introduce the notion of a Heegaard splitting for a compact 3-manifold with boundary, and following the result of Casson and Gordon, will explain their proof that a strongly irreducible Heegaard splitting for a 3-manifold M is either reducible or M is contains an incompressible surface of positive genus.