Definite fillings of lens spaces
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Publication:6406972
arXiv2208.02586MaRDI QIDQ6406972FDOQ6406972
Junghwan Park, Paolo Aceto, Duncan McCoy
Publication date: 4 August 2022
Abstract: This paper considers the problem of determining the smallest (as measured by the second Betti number) smooth negative-definite filling of a lens space. The main result is to classify those lens spaces for which the associated negative-definite canonical plumbing is minimal. The classification takes the form of a list of 10 ``forbidden subgraphs that cannot appear in the plumbing graph if the corresponding plumbed 4-manifold is minimal. We also show that whenever the plumbing is minimal any other negative-definite filling for the given lens space has the same intersection form up to addition of diagonal summands. Consequences regarding smooth embeddings of lens spaces in 4-manifolds are also discussed.
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