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Our goal is to describe an economic way of presenting 3-manifolds numerically. The idea consists in replacing 3-manifolds by cell complexes (their special spines) and encoding the spines by strings of integers. The encoding is natural, i.e., it allows one to operate with manifolds without decoding. We describe an application of the encoding to computer enumeration of 3-manifolds and give the resulting table. A brief introduction into the theory of quantum invariants of 3-manifolds is also given. The invariants were used by the enumeration for auto-matic casting out of duplicates. Separately, we investigate 3-dimensional submanifolds of R 3. Any such submanifold can be presented by a 3-di-mensional binary picture. We give a criterion for a 3-dimensional binary picture to determine a 3-manifold.
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Matveev, S. (2001). Computer Presentation of 3-Manifolds. In: Bertrand, G., Imiya, A., Klette, R. (eds) Digital and Image Geometry. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45576-0_4
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