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On the intersection ring of graph manifolds

Geometric Topology 2015-03-23 v3

Abstract

We calculate the intersection ring of three-dimensional graph manifolds with rational coefficients and give an algebraic characterization of these rings when the manifold's underlying graph is a tree. We are able to use this characterization to show that the intersection ring obstructs arbitrary three-manifolds from being homology cobordant to certain graph manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1412.3990,
  title  = {On the intersection ring of graph manifolds},
  author = {Margaret I. Doig and Peter D. Horn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.3990},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, 9 figures, addressed referee comments

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