Waldhausen's Theorem
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theoremwaldhauseneveryexpositiongenusgiveheegaardisotopy
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This note is an exposition of Waldhausen's proof of Waldhausen's Theorem: the three-sphere has a single Heegaard splitting, up to isotopy, in every genus. As a necessary step we also give a sketch of the Reidemeister-Singer Theorem.
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