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Nielsen equivalence and multisections of 4-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2024-09-04 v2

Abstract

Islambouli showed that there exist infinitely many 4-manifolds admitting non-isotopic trisections using a Nielsen equivalence, which can be used to construct non-isotopic Heegaard splittings. In this paper, we show that there exist infinitely many 4-manifolds admitting non-isotopic bisections in the same way. Moreover, we show that there exist infinitely many 4-manifolds admitting non-isotopic 4-sections by considering the doubles of the bisections.

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@article{arxiv.2401.15822,
  title  = {Nielsen equivalence and multisections of 4-manifolds},
  author = {Tsukasa Isoshima and Masaki Ogawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.15822},
  year   = {2024}
}

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14 pages, 3 figures