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[email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 3-MANIFOLDS OF S1-CATEGORY THREE By DONGXU WANG A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Mathematics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2013 Dongxu Wang defended this dissertation on Apri 4, 2013. The members of the supervisory committee were: Wolfgang Heil Professor Directing Thesis Xufeng Niu University Representative Eric P. Klassen Committee Member Eriko Hironaka Committee Member Warren D. Nichols Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members, and certifies that the dissertation has been approved in accordance with the university requirements. ii To my parents, who always support what I am doing now iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost, I want to express my deep gratitude to my major professor Wolfgang Heil. With his help, for the first time I began to enjoy mathematics research. His patience and guidance has been proved invaluable. His knowledge and experience have helped me a lot in these years. I am greatly indebted to professor Sergio Fenley. His passion and enthusiasm with topology inspired me so much. I am thankful to him for being so kind and welcoming. I discussed many topics with him, which enlarged my knowledge about this subject. I would like to thank professor Eric Klassen for his help during these years.