Weakly reducible Heegaard splittings of manifolds with boundary.
Yoav Moriah, Eric Sedgwick
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Casson and Gordon demonstrated that if a closed manifold possesses a weakly reducible Heegaard splitting then that splitting is either reducible or the manifold contains an essential surface. We investigate the extent to which this theorem extends to manifolds with boundary.
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