The Weber-Seifert dodecahedral space is non-Haken
The Weber-Seifert dodecahedral space is non-Haken
In this paper we settle Thurston’s old question of whether the Weber-Seifert dodecahedral space is non-Haken, a problem that has been a benchmark for progress in computational 3–manifold topology over recent decades. We resolve this question by combining recent significant advances in normal surface enumeration, new heuristic pruning techniques, and …