Seifert-Takens-Singhof fillings of 3-manifolds

J. C. Gomez-Larranaga, W. Heil

The purpose of this paper is to give a short description of some results obtained recently about Seifert-Takens-Singhof fillings (STS fillings) of 3-manifolds and to show how these decompositions are related to other classical concepts used in the study of manifolds.