The standard handlebodies #
A handlebody of genus g is the orientable compact 3-manifold obtained from the 3-ball by
attaching g one-handles; equivalently, it is the product F × [-1, 1] of the interval with a
compact planar surface F of Euler characteristic 1 - g (Hempel, Chapter 2). This file fixes a
concrete model of the second kind inside ℂ × ℝ.
The planar surface TauCeti.planarSurface g is the closed disc of radius g + 1 in ℂ with g
open discs of radius 1 / 2 removed, centred at the real points 2k + 1 - g for k < g. These
holes are pairwise disjoint and lie in the open disc of radius g, so the surface is a closed
disc with g holes, of Euler characteristic 1 - g. The standard handlebody
TauCeti.handlebody g is its product with the interval [-1, 1]. Its manifold boundary is the
closed orientable surface of genus g formed by the two copies of the planar surface and the
annuli over the g + 1 boundary circles.
Handlebodies are the pieces of a Heegaard splitting of a closed orientable 3-manifold, and a
subset of a space is a genus-g handlebody when it is homeomorphic to TauCeti.handlebody g.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.planarSurface g: the closed disc withgholes.TauCeti.handlebody g: the standard handlebody of genusg, a subset ofℂ × ℝ.
Main results #
TauCeti.isCompact_handlebody: the standard handlebodies are compact.TauCeti.isClosed_handlebody: the standard handlebodies are closed.TauCeti.handlebody_zero: the genus-zero handlebody is the closed unit ball ofℂ × ℝ.TauCeti.nonempty_homeomorph_handlebody_zero: the closed unit ball of any real normed space of dimension three is homeomorphic to the genus-zero handlebody.TauCeti.nonempty_homeomorph_handlebody_one: the genus-one handlebody is homeomorphic to the solid torusTauCeti.SolidTorus.
References #
- J. Hempel, 3-Manifolds, Annals of Mathematics Studies 86, Princeton University Press (1976), Chapter 2.
- M. Scharlemann, Heegaard splittings of compact 3-manifolds, in Handbook of Geometric Topology, North-Holland (2002), Section 2.
The closed disc of radius g + 1 in ℂ with g open discs of radius 1 / 2 removed,
centred at the real points 2k + 1 - g for k < g. It is a compact planar surface with
g + 1 boundary circles.
Instances For
The closed disc with g holes is compact.
The closed disc with no holes is the closed unit disc.
The standard handlebody of genus g: the product of the closed disc with g holes,
TauCeti.planarSurface g, with the interval [-1, 1].
Instances For
The standard handlebodies are compact.
The standard handlebodies are closed.
The genus-zero handlebody is the closed unit ball of ℂ × ℝ, for the sup norm.
The genus-zero handlebody is a ball. The closed unit ball of any real normed space of dimension three is homeomorphic to the genus-zero handlebody.
The genus-one handlebody #
The genus-one handlebody is a solid torus. The standard handlebody of genus one is
homeomorphic to the solid torus D² × S¹.