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3-Manifold Spines and Bijoins

Luigi GRASELLI
Dipartimento di Matematica
Piazza Porta San Donato, 5
40127 Bologna Italy

Received: June 28, 1989
Revised: April 28, 1990
ABSTRACT

We describe a combinatorial algorithm for constructing all orientable 3-manifolds with a given standard bidimensional spine by making use of the idea of bijoin (Bandieri and Gagliardi (1982), Graselli (1985)) over a suitable pseudosimplicial triangulation of the spine.

1980 Mathematics Subject Classification (1985 revision): 57N10, 57M25.