Reflections on trisection genus

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Authors Michelle Chu, Stephan Tillmann

Publication date 11 March 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04801

zbMATH Keywords

trisectiontrisection genus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

Abstract: The Heegaard genus of a 3-manifold, as well as the growth of Heegaard genus in its finite sheeted cover spaces, has extensively been studied in terms of algebraic, geometric and topological properties of the 3-manifold. This note shows that analogous results concerning the trisection genus of a smooth, orientable 4-manifold have more general answers than their counterparts for 3-manifolds. In the case of hyperbolic 4-manifolds, upper and lower bounds are given in terms of volume and a trisection of the Davis manifold is described.

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