A necessary and sufficient condition for a surface sum of two handlebodies to be a handlebody

摘要

The main results of the paper are that we give a necessary and sufficient condition for a surface sum of two handlebodies along a connected surface to be a handlebody as follows:(1)The annulus sum H=H1∪AH2 of two handlebodies H1 and H2 is a handlebody if and only if the core curve of A is a longitude for either H1 or H2;(2)Let H=H1∪Sg,b H2 be a surface sum of two handlebodies H1 and H2 along a connected surface S=Sg,b,b 1,ni=g(Hi)2,i=1,2.Suppose that S is incompressible in both H1 and H2.Then H is a handlebody if and only if there exists a basis J={J1,...,Jm}with a partition(J1,J2)of J such that J1 is primitive in H1 and J2 is primitive in H2.