• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.67-77
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• 2011

Let M be a compact orientable closed 3-manifold, and F a non-separating incompressible closed surface in M. Let M' = M - ${\eta}(F)$, where ${\eta}(F)$ is an open regular neighborhood of F in M. In the paper, we give a lower bound of genus of self-amalgamation of minimal Heegaard splitting $V'\;{\cup}_{S'}\;W'$ of M' under some conditions on the distance of the Heegaard splitting.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.1989-2000
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• 2013

We show that for any given closed orientable 3-manifold M with a Heegaard surface of genus g, any positive integers b and n, there exists a knot K in M which admits a (g, b)-bridge splitting of distance greater than n with respect to the Heegaard surface except for (g, b) = (0, 1), (0, 2).

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.56 no.2
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• pp.515-520
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• 2019

We give new evidence that "complicated" Heegaard surfaces behave like incompressible surfaces. More precisely, suppose that a closed connected orientable 3-manifold M contains a closed connected incompressible surface F which separates M into two (connected) components $M_1$ and $M_2$. Let S be a Heegaard surface of M. Our result is that if the Hempel distance of S is at least four, then S is isotoped so that $S{\cap}M_i$ is incompressible for each i = 1, 2.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.735-740
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• 2015

Tomova [8] gave an upper bound for the distance of a bridge surface for a knot with two different bridge positions in a 3-manifold. In this paper, we show that the result of Tomova [8, Theorem 10.3] can be improved in the case when there are two different bridge spheres for a link in $S^3$.