From Heegaard splittings to trisections; porting 3-dimensional ideas to dimension 4

DOI10.5802/WBLN.24zbMATH Open1444.57014arXiv1902.01797OpenAlexW4206894185MaRDI QIDQ784187FDOQ784187

Authors: David Gay 

Publication date: 3 August 2020

Published in: Winter Braids Lecture Notes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: These notes summarize and expand on a mini-course given at CIRM in February 2018 as part of Winter Braids VIII. We somewhat obsessively develop the slogan `Trisections are to 4-manifolds as Heegaard splittings are to 3-manifolds', focusing on and clarifying the distinction between three ways of thinking of things: the basic definitions as decompositions of manifolds, the Morse theoretic perspective and descriptions in terms of diagrams. We also lay out these themes in two important relative settings: 4-manifolds with boundary and 4-manifolds with embedded 2-dimensional submanifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01797

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilizationMorse theorydecompositionsdiagrams4-manifolds with boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40) General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30)

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