Homotopy Equivalences of 3-Manifolds with Boundaries (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 761)

Introduction....Pages 3-18 General theory....Pages 19-46 Essential singular surfaces in some special 3-manifolds....Pages 47-82 Characteristic submanifolds....Pages 83-103 Singular surfaces and characteristic submanifolds....Pages 104-119 Singular submanifolds and characteristic submanifolds....Pages 120-133 Invariance of the characteristic submanifolds under homotopy equivalences....Pages 134-158 Simple 3-manifolds....Pages 159-173 Attaching homotopy equivalences....Pages 174-186 Dehn twists of 3-manifolds....Pages 187-226 Dehn flips of 3-manifolds....Pages 227-249 Homotopy equivalences of surfaces and I-bundles....Pages 250-279 Geometric properties of 3-manifold groups....Pages 280-296