Heegaard Surfaces and Measured Laminations, I: the Waldhausen Conjecture
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We give a proof of the so-called generalized Waldhausen conjecture, which says that an orientable irreducible atoroidal 3–manifold has only finitely many Heegaard splittings in each genus, up to isotopy. Jaco and Rubinstein have announced a proof of this conjecture using different methods.
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Heegaard Surfaces and Measured Laminations, I: the Walderhausen Conjecture
We give a proof of the so-called generalized Walderhausen conjecture, which says that an orientable irreducible atoroidal 3-manifold has only finitely many Heegaard splittings in each genus, up to isotopy. Jaco and Rubinstein have announced a proof of this conjecture using
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