Genus-minimal crystallizations of PL 4-manifolds

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Abstract: For dgeq2, the regular genus of a closed connected PL d-manifold M is the least genus (resp., half of the genus) of an orientable (resp., a non-orientable) surface into which a crystallization of M imbeds regularly. The regular genus of every orientable surface equals its genus, and the regular genus of every 3-manifold equals its Heegaard genus. For every closed connected PL 4-manifold M, it is known that its regular genus mathcalG(M) is at least 2chi(M)+5m4, where m is the rank of the fundamental group of M. In this article, we introduce the concept of "weak semi-simple crystallization" for every closed connected PL 4-manifold M, and prove that mathcalG(M)=2chi(M)+5m4 if and only if M admits a weak semi-simple crystallization. We then show that the PL invariant regular genus is additive under the connected sum within the class of all PL 4-manifolds admitting a weak semi-simple crystallization. Also, we note that this property is related to the 4-dimensional Smooth Poincar'e Conjecture.









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