• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.1297-1302
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• 2013

We prove that the mapping class group of a non-Haken orientable irreducible 3-manifold is finite and we show that the quotient group of the mapping class group by the rotation group is virtually torsion-free if the manifold does not have 2-sphere boundary components.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.549-559
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• 2005

Given a non-Haken, non Seifert fibred manifold we describe an algorithm that takes 2 (not necessarily distinct) Heegaard surfaces and produces a complex with certain useful properties (Properties 5.1). Our main tool is Rubinstein and Scharlemann's Cerf theoretic work ([5]).