Surface-link families with arbitrarily large triple point number (Q2172646)

A surface-link is a closed surface smoothly embedded in \(\mathbb{R}^4\). For a surface-link \(F\), a broken sheet diagram of \(F\) is the image \(\pi(F)\) by a generic projection \(\pi: \mathbb{R}^4 \to \mathbb{R}^3\) equipped with crossing information with respect to \(\pi\), and the triple point number of \(F\) is the minimum number of triple points among all broken sheet diagrams presenting surface-links equivalent to \(F\). The main result is that for any non-negative integers \(k\) and \(m\), there exists a non-split surface-link \(F=(\bigcup_{i=1}^k F_i) \cup (\bigcup_{i=1}^m F'_i) \cup G\) such that the \(F_i\) \((i=1, \ldots, k)\) and \(G\) are trivial and orientable components, and the \(F_i'\) \((i=1, \ldots, m)\) are trivial and non-orientable components of arbitrary even genus, and the triple point number is the sum of the genera of the \(F'_i\), besides several other properties. This is a generalization of Oshiro's family [\textit{K. Oshiro}, Algebr. Geom. Topol. 10, No. 2, 853--865 (2010; Zbl 1188.57017)]. In order to give a lower bound of the triple point number, the author uses symmetric quandle 3-cocycle invariants.