2006/07/06 by Rieck, Yo'av, Rubinstein, J Hyam
#57M12 #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0607145
Let M be a 3-manifold admitting a strongly irreducible Heegaard surface S and f:M → M an involution. We construct an invariant Heegaard surface for M of genus at most 8 g(S) - 7. As a consequence, given a (possibly branched) double cover π:M → N we obtain the following bound on the Heegaard genus of N: g(N) ≤ 4g(S) - 3. We also get a bound on the complexity of the branch set in terms of g(S). If we assume that M is non-Haken, by Casson and Gordon we may replace g(S) by g(M) in all the statements above.