Pair of pants decomposition of 4-manifolds

DOI10.2140/AGT.2017.17.1407zbMATH Open1376.57020arXiv1503.05839OpenAlexW3103422161MaRDI QIDQ2398826FDOQ2398826

Authors: Marco Golla, Bruno Martelli 

Publication date: 21 August 2017

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using tropical geometry, Mikhalkin has proved that every smooth complex hypersurface in $mathbb{CP}^{n+1}$ decomposes into pairs of pants: a pair of pants is a real compact $2n$-manifold with cornered boundary obtained by removing an open regular neighborhood of $n+2$ generic hyperplanes from $mathbb{CP}^n$. As is well-known, every compact surface of genus $ggeqslant2$ decomposes into pairs of pants, and it is now natural to investigate this construction in dimension 4. Which smooth closed 4-manifolds decompose into pairs of pants? We address this problem here and construct many examples: we prove in particular that every finitely presented group is the fundamental group of a 4-manifold that decomposes into pairs of pants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05839

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zbMATH Keywords

4-manifoldspair of pants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

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