Filling links and minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds
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2022-04-22
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This thesis studies this existence of filling links 3-manifolds. A link L in a 3-manifold M is filling in M if, for any spine G of M disjoint from L, π_1(G) injects into π_1(M-L). Conceptually, a filling link cuts through all of the topology 3-manifold. These links were first studied by Freedman-Krushkal in the concrete case of the 3-torus M = T^3, but they leave open the question of whether a filling link actually exists in T^3. We answer this question affirmatively by proving in fact that every closed, orientable 3-manifold M with fundamental group of rank 3 contains a filling link.
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3-manifolds, hyperbolic manifolds, minimal surfaces, low-dimensional topology
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Stagner, William. "Filling links and minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds." (2022) Diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113390.
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