Exotic 4-manifolds with small trisection genus
Geometric Topology
2025-05-20 v3
Abstract
We show that there exists an exotic pair of -manifolds with boundary whose trisection genera are . We also construct genus- relative trisections for an infinite family of contractible -manifolds introduced by Akbulut and Kirby.
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@article{arxiv.2308.00482,
title = {Exotic 4-manifolds with small trisection genus},
author = {Natsuya Takahashi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00482},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
18 pages, 22 figures, exposition improved, figures added and modified, error in Figure 18 corrected, published in Topology and its Applications