Self-reproducing incompressible annulus cut

ID: self-reproducing-incompressible-annulus-cut

Let be a once-punctured torus and let be a nonseparating essential curve. The annulus is an incompressible surface in . Cutting gives a pair of pants times an interval. Both products are genus-two handlebodies, since a compact connected surface with boundary times an interval is a handlebody of genus .

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