Multisections of piecewise linear manifolds

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2020.69.8044MaRDI QIDQ3387532zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephan Tillmann, J. Hyam Rubinstein

Publication date 13 January 2021

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03279

zbMATH Keywords

bistellar movecombinatorial manifoldcubinghandlebodypiecewise linear manifoldtriangulationtrisection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

Abstract: Recently Gay and Kirby described a new decomposition of smooth closed $4$-manifolds called a trisection. This paper generalises Heegaard splittings of $3$-manifolds and trisections of $4$-manifolds to all dimensions, using triangulations as a key tool. In particular, we prove that every closed piecewise linear $n$-manifold has a multisection, i.e. can be divided into $k+1$ $n$-dimensional $1$-handlebodies, where $n=2k+1$ or $n=2k$, such that intersections of the handlebodies have spines of small dimensions. Several applications, constructions and generalisations of our approach are given.

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