Morse area and Scharlemann-Thompson width for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
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Scharlemann and Thompson define a numerical complexity for a 3-manifold using handle decompositions of the manifold. We show that for compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds this is linearly related to a definition of metric complexity in terms of the areas of level sets of Morse functions.Keywords
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