The purpose of this paper is to relate several generalizations of the notion of the Heegaard splitting of a closed 3-manifold to compact, orientable 3-manifolds with nonempty boundary.
@article{urn:eudml:doc:41930, title = {Handlebody splittings of compact 3-manifolds with boundary.}, journal = {Revista Matem\'atica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid}, volume = {20}, year = {2007}, pages = {123-137}, mrnumber = {MR2310582}, zbl = {1138.57023}, language = {en}, url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/urn:eudml:doc:41930} }
Suzuki, Shin'ichi. Handlebody splittings of compact 3-manifolds with boundary.. Revista Matemática de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Tome 20 (2007) pp. 123-137. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/urn:eudml:doc:41930/