The Weber-Seifert Dodecahedral Space is non-Haken
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In this paper we develop a new test to help identify whether a closed, orientable, irreducible 3–manifold is non-Haken. The test builds on work by Jaco and Oertel, and also incorporates heuristic pruning techniques to test whether a normal surface is compressible. As an application, we settle Thurston’s old question of whether the Weber-Seifert dodecahedral space is non-Haken. AMS Classification 57N10
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تاریخ انتشار 2009