Spun normal surfaces in 3-manifolds, II: The toroidal case

Spun normal surfaces are a useful way of representing proper essential surfaces using ideal triangulations for 3-manifolds with tori boundaries.Here we consider spinning surfaces in the case of a 3-manifold with a nontrivial JSJ decomposition, where each of the JSJ components is hyperbolic.We prove that a proper essential surface can be spun, so long as none of the JSJ components are bundles with fiber a subsurface of and the ideal triangulation satisfies similar properties to a taut structure. There are no embedded normal 2-spheres, projective planes, or Klein bottles. Every embedded normal torus is peripheral.

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Pacific Journal of Mathematics
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2026-05-22
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https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.2026.343.371
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Geometric and Algebraic Topology
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Spun normal surfaces in 3-manifolds, II: The toroidal case

Ensil Kang, Jh Rubinstein
Pacific Journal of Mathematics
Geometric and Algebraic Topology
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Spun normal surfaces in 3-manifolds, II: The toroidal case

Ensil Kang, Jh Rubinstein
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Abstract

Spun normal surfaces are a useful way of representing proper essential surfaces using ideal triangulations for 3-manifolds with tori boundaries.Here we consider spinning surfaces in the case of a 3-manifold with a nontrivial JSJ decomposition, where each of the JSJ components is hyperbolic.We prove that a proper essential surface can be spun, so long as none of the JSJ components are bundles with fiber a subsurface of and the ideal triangulation satisfies similar properties to a taut structure. There are no embedded normal 2-spheres, projective planes, or Klein bottles. Every embedded normal torus is peripheral.

Pacific Journal of MathematicsVol. 343(2)
Chosun University (KR), The University of Melbourne (AU)
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