Homotopy Equivalences of 3-Manifolds with Boundaries

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• General theory.
• Essential singular surfaces in some special 3-manifolds.
• Characteristic submanifolds.
• Singular surfaces and characteristic submanifolds.
• Singular submanifolds and characteristic submanifolds.
• Invariance of the characteristic submanifolds under homotopy equivalences.
• Simple 3-manifolds.
• Attaching homotopy equivalences.
• Dehn twists of 3-manifolds.
• Dehn flips of 3-manifolds.
• Homotopy equivalences of surfaces and I-bundles.
• Geometric properties of 3-manifold groups.