. G T ] 5 O ct 2 00 3 ALMOST NORMAL HEEGAARD SURFACES

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  • SIMON A. KING
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We present a new and shorter proof of Stocking's result that any strongly irreducible Heegaard surface of a closed orientable triangulated 3– manifold is isotopic to an almost normal surface. We also reprove a result of Jaco and Rubinstein on normal spheres. Both proofs are based on the " reduction " technique introduced by the author.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003