 Heegaard diagram (source code)

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= Heegaard diagram
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A Heegaard diagram marks the boundaries of compressing disks from the two sides of a <Heegaard surface>. Attaching <two-handles> along the two collections, and capping resulting spherical boundary components, reconstructs the <three-manifold>.

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