Doubly pointed trisection diagrams and surgery on 2-knots
Geometric Topology
2023-06-22 v1
Abstract
We study embedded spheres in 4-manifolds (2-knots) via doubly pointed trisection diagrams, showing that such descriptions are unique up to stabilization and handleslides, and we describe how to obtain trisection diagrams for certain cut-and-paste operations along 2-knots directly from doubly pointed trisection diagrams. The operations described are classical surgery, Gluck surgery, blowdown, and -rational blowdown, and we illustrate our techniques and results with many examples.
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@article{arxiv.1806.05351,
title = {Doubly pointed trisection diagrams and surgery on 2-knots},
author = {David Gay and Jeffrey Meier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.05351},
year = {2023}
}
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33 pages, 22 figures