Handle decomposition complexibility and representation spaces

MaRDI QIDQ6413776zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paolo Aceto, A. Daemi, Jennifer Hom, Tye Lidman, Junghwan Park

Publication date 12 October 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40) Floer homology (57R58) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28)

Abstract: We prove that there are homology three-spheres that bound definite four-manifolds, but any such bounding four-manifold must be built out of many handles. The argument uses the homology cobordism invariant $Gamma$ from instanton Floer homology.

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