In1980, Powell proposed that five specific elements sufficed to generate the Goeritz group for any genus Heegaard splitting of S^3. Here we prove that a natural expansion of Powell’s proposed generators, to include all eyeglass twists and all topological conjugates of Powell’s generators, does suffice.
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