Involutions of 3-dimensional handlebodies

2008/06/05 by Andrea Pantaleoni, Pantaleoni, Andrea, Riccardo Piergallini +1
Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · #55M35 #57M60 #57S17 #Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques #Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #math.GT #msc:55M35 #msc:57M60 #msc:57S17

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0806.0904

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Abstract

We study the orientation preserving involutions of the orientable 3-dimensional handlebody H_g, for any genus g. A complete classification of such involutions is given in terms of their fixed points.

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