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The stabilization problem for Heegaard splittings of Seifert fibered spaces. (English) Zbl 0867.57013
Summary: The maximal number of stabilizations required to obtain equivalent Heegaard splittings from Heegaard splittings of an orientable Seifert fibered space with orientable base space is 1.

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 57N10 Topology of general $$3$$-manifolds (MSC2010)
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