Multisections of 4-manifolds

DOI10.1090/TRAN/8996arXiv2010.03057OpenAlexW3092128311MaRDI QIDQ6138025FDOQ6138025

Authors: Gabriel Islambouli, Patrick Naylor 

Publication date: 16 January 2024

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce multisections of smooth, closed 4-manifolds, which generalize trisections to decompositions with more than three pieces. This decomposition describes an arbitrary smooth, closed 4-manifold as a sequence of cut systems on a surface. We show how to carry out many smooth cut and paste operations in terms of these cut systems. In particular, we show how to implement a cork twist, whereby we show that an arbitrary exotic pair of smooth 4-manifolds admit 4-sections differing only by one cut system. By carrying out fiber sums and log transforms, we also show that the elliptic fibrations $E(n{)}_{p,q}$ all admit genus 3 multisections, and draw explicit diagrams for these manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03057

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40)

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