• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.773-793
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• 2005

We consider interesting conditions, one of which will be called the disjoint $(A^2,\;D^2)-pair$ property, on genus $g{\geq}2$ Heegaard splittings of compact orient able 3-manifolds. Here a Heegaard splitting $(C_1,\;C_2;\;F)$ admits the disjoint $(A^2,\;D^2)-pair$ property if there are an essential annulus Ai normally embedded in $C_i$ and an essential disk $D_j\;in\;C_j((i,\;j)=(1,\;2)\;or\;(2,\;1))$ such that ${\partial}A_i$ is disjoint from ${\partial}D_j$. It is proved that all genus $g{\geq}2$ Heegaard splittings of toroidal manifolds and Seifert fibered spaces admit the disjoint $(A^2,\;D^2)-pair$ property.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.99-105
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• 2009

Let $M=H_1{\cup}_SH_2$ be a Heegaard splitting of a 3-manifold M, D be an essential disk in $H_1$ and A be an essential annulus in $H_2$. Suppose D and A intersect in one point. First, we show that a Heegaard splitting admitting such a (D, A) pair satisfies the disjoint curve property, yet there are infinitely many examples of strongly irreducible Heegaard splittings with such (D, A) pairs. In the second half, we obtain another Heegaard splitting $M=H'_1{\cup}_{S'}H'_2$ by removing the neighborhood of A from $H_2$ and attaching it to $H_1$, and show that $M=H'_1{\cup}_{S'}H'_2$ also has a (D, A) pair with $|D{\cap}A|=1$.