Trisections and spun four-manifolds (Q1727877)

The theory of trisections was introduced by \textit{D. T. Gay} and \textit{R. Kirby} [Geom. Topol. 20, No. 6, 3097--3132 (2016; Zbl 1372.57033)] as a novel way of studying the smooth topology of 4-manifolds. In this article, the author mainly studies trisections of 4-manifolds obtained by spinning and twist-spinning 3-manifolds. He shows that, given a (suitable) Heegaard diagram for the 3-manifold, one can perform simple local modifications to obtain a trisection diagram for the 4-manifold. He also shows that this local modification can be used to convert a (suitable) doubly-pointed Heegaard diagram for a 3-manifold/knot pair into a doubly-pointed trisection diagram for the 4-manifold/2-knot pair resulting from the twist-spinning operation. \par This technique offers a rich list of new manifolds that admit trisection diagrams that are amenable to study. Further the author formulates a conjecture about 4-manifolds with trisection genus three and provides some supporting evidence.