English

Multisections of surface bundles and bundles over the circle

Geometric Topology 2024-10-14 v2

Abstract

A multisection is a decomposition of a manifold into 1-handlebodies, where each subcollection of the pieces intersects along a 1-handlebody except the global intersection which is a closed surface. These generalizations of Heegaard splittings and Gay-Kirby trisections were introduced by Ben Aribi, Courte, Golla and the author, who proved in particular that any 5-manifold admits such a multisection. In arbitrary dimension, we show that two classes of manifolds admit multisections: surface bundles and fiber bundles over the circle whose fiber itself is multisected. We provide explicit constructions, with examples.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2305.05619,
  title  = {Multisections of surface bundles and bundles over the circle},
  author = {Delphine Moussard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.05619},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

16 pages, 16 figures, exposition improved, to appear in Publicacions Matematiques