Generalized regular genus for manifolds with boundary
Cristofori, Paola;
le matematiche2003Vol. 58pp. 51-65
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Abstract
We introduce a generalization of the regular genus, a combinatorial invariant of PL manifolds ([10]), which is proved to be strictly related, in dimension three, to generalized Heegaard splittings defined in [12].