New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 10 (2004) 133-150

  

J. Masters, W. Menasco, and X. Zhang

Heegaard splittings and virtually Haken Dehn filling


Published: April 15, 2004
Keywords: 3-manifolds, covering spaces, Heegaard splittings, knots, virually Haken
Subject: 57N10, 57M10; 58C40, 05C25, 57M15, 51M15

Abstract
We use Heegaard splittings to give some examples of virtually Haken 3-manifolds.

Acknowledgements

The first author was supported by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
The second author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0306062.
The third author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0204428.


Author information

J. Masters:
Department of Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005
Current Address: Department of Mathematics, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-2900
jdmaster@buffalo.edu

W. Menasco:
Department of Mathematics, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-2900
menasco@math.buffalo.edu

X. Zhang:
Department of Mathematics, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-2900
xinzhang@math.buffalo.edu