Heegaard diagrams for $5$-manifolds
Geometric Topology
2025-05-13 v1
Abstract
We introduce a version of Heegaard diagrams for -dimensional cobordisms with - and -handles, -dimensional -handlebodies, and closed -manifolds. We show that every such smooth -manifold can be represented by a Heegaard diagram, and that two Heegaard diagrams represent diffeomorphic -manifolds if and only if they are related by certain moves. As an application, we construct Heegaard diagrams for -dimensional cobordisms from the standard -sphere to the Gluck twists along knotted -spheres. This provides several statements equivalent to the Gluck twist being diffeomorphic to the standard -sphere.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.06887,
title = {Heegaard diagrams for $5$-manifolds},
author = {Geunyoung Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.06887},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
32 pages, 19 figures