David Bachman

  1. Surfaces that become isotopic after Dehn filling.

    Authors: David Bachman, Ryan Derby-Talbot, Eric Sedgwick
    Subjects: Geometric Topology
    Abstract

    We show that after generic filling along a torus boundary component of a
    3-manifold, no two closed, 2-sided, essential surfaces become isotopic, and no
    closed, 2-sided, essential surface becomes inessential. That is, the set of
    essential surfaces (considered up to isotopy) survives unchanged in all
    suitably generic Dehn fillings. Furthermore, for all but finitely many
    non-generic fillings, we show that two essential surfaces can only become
    isotopic in a constrained way.

  2. Heegaard structure respects complicated JSJ decompositions.

    Authors: David Bachman, Ryan Derby-Talbot, Eric Sedgwick
    Subjects: Geometric Topology
    Abstract

    Let $M$ be a 3-manifold with torus boundary components $T_1$ and $T_2$. Let
    $\phi \colon T_1 \to T_2$ be a homeomorphism, $M_\phi$ the manifold obtained
    from $M$ by gluing $T_1$ to $T_2$ via the map $\phi$, and $T$ the image of
    $T_1$ in $M_\phi$. We show that if $\phi$ is "sufficiently complicated" then
    any incompressible or strongly irreducible surface in $M_\phi$ can be isotoped
    to be disjoint from $T$.

  3. On the existence of high index topologically minimal surfaces.

    Authors: Jesse Johnson, David Bachman
    Subjects: Geometric Topology
    Abstract

    The topological index of a surface was previously introduced by the first
    author as the topological analogue of the index of an unstable minimal surface.
    Here we show that surfaces of arbitrarily high topological index exist.

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