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.
Authors
- Ensil Kang
- Jh Rubinstein
Institutions
- Chosun University (KR)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Pacific Journal of Mathematics
- Published
- 2026-05-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.2026.343.371
- Primary Topic
- Geometric and Algebraic Topology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00