Taut sutured manifolds and twisted homology

2012/09/03 by Stefan Friedl, Friedl, Stefan, Taehee Kim +1
Mathematics · #57M27 #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #math.GT #msc:57M27

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1209.0254

17 pages; typos fixed

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Abstract

We give a necessary and sufficient criterion for a sutured manifold to be taut in terms of the twisted homology of the sutured manifold.

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