Efficient multisections of odd-dimensional tori

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Abstract: Rubinstein--Tillmann generalized the notions of Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds and trisections of 4-manifolds by defining {it multisections} of PL n-manifolds, which are decompositions into k=lfloorn/2floor+1 n-dimensional 1-handlebodies with nice intersection properties. For each odd-dimensional torus Tn, we construct a multisection which is {it efficient} in the sense that each 1-handlebody has genus n, which we prove is optimal; each multisection is {it symmetric} with respect to both the permutation action of Sn on the indices and the translation action along the main diagonal. We also construct such a trisection of T4, lift all symmetric multisections of tori to certain cubulated manifolds, and obtain combinatorial identities as corollaries.











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