Minimal genus relative trisections of corks

MaRDI QIDQ6408081zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Natsuya Takahashi

Publication date 17 August 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40)

Abstract: In this paper, we prove that the trisection genus of the Akbulut cork is $3$ and construct infinitely many corks with trisection genus $3$. These results give the first examples of contractible $4$-manifolds whose trisection genera are determined except for the $4$-ball. We also give a lower bound for the trisection genus of a $4$-manifold with boundary. In addition, we construct low genus relative trisection diagrams of an exotic pair of simply-connected $4$-manifolds with $b_2=1$.

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