Haken Manifold - Examples of Haken Manifolds

Examples of Haken Manifolds

Note that some families of examples are contained in others.

  • Compact, irreducible 3-manifolds with positive first Betti number
  • Surface bundles over the circle, this is a special case of the example above.
  • Link complements
  • Most Seifert fiber spaces have many incompressible tori

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