Homeomorphisms Which Are Dehn Twists on the Boundary
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A homeomorphism of a 3-manifold M is said to be Dehn twists on the boundary when its restriction to ∂M is isotopic to the identity on the complement of a collection of disjoint simple closed curves in ∂M . In this paper, we give various results about such collections of curves and the associated homeomorphisms. In particular, if M is compact, orientable, irreducible and ∂M is a single torus, and M admits a homeomorphism which is a nontrivial Dehn twist on ∂M , then M must
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