Simple and Special Polyhedra
1.1 Spines of 3-Manifolds
1.1.1 Collapsing
1.1.2 Spines
1.1.3 Simple and Special Polyhedra
1.1.4 Special Spines
1.1.5 Special Polyhedra and Singular Triangulations
1.2 Elementary Moves on Special Spines ~
1.2.1 Moves on Simple Polyhedra
1.2.2 2-Cell Replacement Lemma
1.2.3 Bubble Move
1.2.4 Marked Polyhedra
1.3 Special Polyhedra Which are not Spines
1.3.1 Various Notions of Equivalence for Polyhedra
1.3.2 Moves on Abstract Simple Polyhedra
1.3.3 How to Hit the Target Without Inverse U-Turns
1.3.4 Zeeman's Collapsing Conjecture
Complexity Theory of 3-Manifolds
2.1 What is the Complexity of a 3-Manifold?
2.1.1 Almost Simple Polyhedra
2.1.2 Definition and Estimation of the Complexity
2.2 Properties of Complexity
2.2.1 Converting Almost Simple Spines into Special Ones..
2.2.2 The Finiteness Property
2.2.3 The Additivity Property
2.3 Closed Manifolds of Small Complexity
2.3.1 Enumeration Procedure
2.3.2 Simplification Moves
2.3.3 Manifolds of Complexity