| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4660574 | Topology and its Applications | 2009 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
We define fat train tracks and use them to give a combinatorial criterion for the Hempel distance of Heegaard splittings for closed orientable 3-manifolds. We apply this criterion to 3-manifolds obtained from surgery on knots in S3.
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