A note on three-fold branched covers of S⁴

DOI10.5802/AIF.3588arXiv1909.11788OpenAlexW2977166407MaRDI QIDQ6325995FDOQ6325995

Jeffrey Meier, Alexandra Kjuchukova, Patricia Cahn, Ryan Blair

Publication date: 25 September 2019

Abstract: We show that any 4-manifold admitting a $(g;k_1,k_2,0)$-trisection is an irregular 3-fold cover of the 4-sphere whose branching set is a surface in $S^4$, smoothly embedded except for one singular point which is the cone on a link. A 4-manifold admits such a trisection if and only if it has a handle decomposition with no 1-handles; it is conjectured that all simply-connected 4-manifolds have this property.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.5802/aif.3588

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Knot theory (57K10) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40)

Cited In (1)

• Toric multisections and curves in rational surfaces

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