Handle decompositions of 3-manifolds

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Handle decompositions of 3-manifolds allows you to simplify the original 3-manifold into pieces which are easier to study. An important method is decompose into handlebodies is the Heegaard splitting, which give us a decomposition in two handlebodies of equal genus.