Handle decompositions for a class of closed orientable PL 4-manifolds
Abstract
In this article, we study a class of closed connected orientable PL -manifolds admitting a semi-simple crystallization and which have an infinite cyclic fundamental group. We show that the manifold in the class admits a handle decomposition in which the number of -handles depends upon its second Betti number and other -handles () are at most . More precisely, our main result is the following. For a closed connected orientable PL -manifold having a semi-simple crystallization with the fundamental group as , we have constructed a handle decomposition for as one of the following types: one -handle, two -handles, -handles, one -handle and one -handle, one -handle, one -handle, -handles, one -handle and one -handle, where denotes the second Betti number of manifold with coefficients.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2103.13602,
title = {Handle decompositions for a class of closed orientable PL 4-manifolds},
author = {Biplab Basak and Manisha Binjola},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.13602},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
9 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics