Talk:Kernel formation (Ex)
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The lens space is a union of two solid tori glued along the boundary. The gluing diffeomorphism
is such that
, where
and
denote the longtitude and meridian of the solid torus.
From this Heegard decomposition we obtain the kernel formation

The first lagrangian is spanned by the generator of
. This generator is exactly the meridian
. The same argument shows, that the second lagrangian is generated by the image of the meridian of complementary torus
.
Certainly we have
. Furthermore it is easy to see that the index of
in
is equal to
. Thus the kernel formation is trivial if and only if
.
We have
, thus we obtain trivial formations for
:

For it is sufficient to notice that
. Thus the associated formation is:
