Trisections of Lefschetz pencils

DOI10.2140/AGT.2016.16.3523zbMATH Open1375.57023arXiv1510.08791OpenAlexW4247742140MaRDI QIDQ728322FDOQ728322

Authors: David Gay 

Publication date: 20 December 2016

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Donaldson showed that every closed symplectic 4-manifold can be given the structure of a topological Lefschetz pencil. Gay and Kirby showed that every closed 4-manifold has a trisection. In this paper we relate these two structure theorems, showing how to construct a trisection directly from a topological Lefschetz pencil. This trisection is such that each of the three sectors is a regular neighborhood of a regular fiber of the pencil. This is a 4-dimensional analog of the following trivial 3-dimensional result: For every open book decomposition of a 3-manifold M, there is a decomposition of M into three handlebodies, each of which is a regular neighborhood of a page.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08791

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zbMATH Keywords

Lefschetz pencilopen booksymplectic4-manifoldtrisection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

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