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The characteristic submanifold of a Haken 3-manifold
by
Peter Scott
University of Michigan
In the 1970's, Jaco and Shalen, and Johannson, showed that any Haken 3-manifold with incompressible boundary has a canonical submanifold, called the characteristic submanifold. In this talk, I will describe a new proof of the existence and uniqueness of this submanifold.
Date received: January 31, 2000
Copyright © 2000 by the author(s). The author(s) of this document and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Atlas Conferences Inc. Document # cady-21.