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Handle decompositions for a class of closed orientable PL 4-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2025-12-16 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this article, we study a class of closed connected orientable PL 44-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 22-handles depends upon its second Betti number and other hh-handles (h4h \leq 4) are at most 22. More precisely, our main result is the following. For a closed connected orientable PL 44-manifold having a semi-simple crystallization with the fundamental group as Z\mathbb{{Z}}, we have constructed a handle decomposition for MM as one of the following types: (1)(1) one 00-handle, two 11-handles, 1+β2(M)1+\beta_2(M) 22-handles, one 33-handle and one 44-handle, (2)(2) one 00-handle, one 11-handle, β2(M)\beta_2(M) 22-handles, one 33-handle and one 44-handle, where β2(M)\beta_2(M) denotes the second Betti number of manifold MM with Z\mathbb{Z} coefficients.

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@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}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics