Heegaard Splitting at Math Glossary

What is it? A division of a 3-manifold into two handlebodies. An early result in topology states that every closed 3-manifold (closed meaning that the manifold is finite and connected but has no boundary) has a Heegaard splitting and a resulting description in terms

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