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Trisections obtained by trivially regluing surface-knots

Geometric Topology 2023-07-21 v2

Abstract

Let SS be a P2P^2-knot which is the connected sum of a 2-knot with normal Euler number 0 and an unknotted P2P^2-knot with normal Euler number ±2\pm2 in a closed 4-manifold XX with trisection TXT_{X}. Then, we show that the trisection of XX obtained by the trivial gluing relative trisections of ν(S)\overline{\nu(S)} and Xν(S)X-\nu(S) is diffeomorphic to a stabilization of TXT_{X}. It should be noted that this result is not obvious since boundary-stabilizations introduced by Kim and Miller are used to construct a relative trisection of Xν(S)X-\nu(S). As a corollary, if X=S4X=S^4, the resulting trisection is diffeomorphic to a stabilization of the genus 0 trisection of S4S^4. This result is related to the conjecture that is a 4-dimensional analogue of Waldhausen's theorem on Heegaard splittings.

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@article{arxiv.2205.04817,
  title  = {Trisections obtained by trivially regluing surface-knots},
  author = {Tsukasa Isoshima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.04817},
  year   = {2023}
}

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20 pages, 18 figures

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