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Incompressibility, Seifert fibrations, and JSJ systems

Definition

Let M be a compact smooth 3-manifold. A properly embedded surface is two-sided if it has a product neighbourhood F×[−1,1] in M. A compressing disk for a two-sided surface F is an embedded disk D⊂M with int⁡(D)∩F=∅ and ∂D an essential simple closed curve in F; F is incompressible if it has no compressing disk. A boundary-compressing disk is an embedded disk D with ∂D=α∪β, where α=D∩F is an arc not cutting off a disk in F, β=D∩∂M, and int⁡(D) misses F∪∂M; F is boundary-incompressible if it has no such disk. A surface is boundary-parallel if it cobounds a product with a subsurface of ∂M, and it is essential if it is incompressible, boundary-incompressible, and not boundary-parallel. M is irreducible if every embedded 2-sphere in its interior bounds an embedded 3-ball in M. An incompressible torus is boundary-parallel if it cobounds a product T2×[0,1] with a component of ∂M; M is atoroidal if every incompressible torus is boundary-parallel. A Seifert fibration is a decomposition into circles with local models given by fibered solid tori; in the model (D2×S1)/⟨(z,w)↦(e2πi/qz,e2πip/qw)⟩, where gcd⁡(p,q)=1, the core fiber has multiplicity q. Fibers of multiplicity 1 are regular and those of multiplicity greater than 1 are exceptional. A finite family of pairwise disjoint incompressible tori is a JSJ system if every component obtained by cutting M along the family is atoroidal or Seifert-fibered. It is inclusion-minimal if no proper subfamily is a JSJ system. Atoroidal does not mean hyperbolic.

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