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Elliptic surfaces without 1-handles

Geometric Topology 2008-07-25 v2

Abstract

Harer-Kas-Kirby conjectured that every handle decomposition of the elliptic surface E(1)_{2,3} requires both 1- and 3-handles. We prove that the elliptic surface E(n)_{p,q} has a handle decomposition without 1-handles for n1n\geq 1 and (p,q)=(2,3),(2,5),(3,4),(4,5).

Cite

@article{arxiv.0802.3372,
  title  = {Elliptic surfaces without 1-handles},
  author = {Kouichi Yasui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.3372},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

23 pages, 56 figures, slightly extended, accepted for publication in J. Topol

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