%0 Journal Article
%T On the Heegaard genus of contact 3-manifolds
%A Burak Ozbagci
%J Mathematics
%D 2010
%I arXiv
%X It is well-known that Heegaard genus is additive under connected sum of 3-manifolds. We show that Heegaard genus of contact 3-manifolds is not necessarily additive under contact connected sum. We also prove some basic properties of the contact genus (a.k.a. open book genus) of 3-manifolds, and compute this invariant for some 3-manifolds.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2388v1