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Trisections of surface complements and the Price twist

Geometric Topology 2020-03-11 v3

Abstract

Given an SRP2S\cong \mathbb{R}P^2 smoothly embedded in a 4-manifold X4X^4 with Euler number 2 or -2, the Price twist is a surgery operation on ν(S)\nu(S) yielding (up to) three different 4-manifolds: X4,τS(X4),ΣS(X4)X^4,\tau_S(X^4),\Sigma_S(X^4). This is of particular interest when X4=S4X^4=S^4, as then ΣS(X4)\Sigma_S(X^4) is a homotopy 4-sphere which is not obviously diffeomorphic to S4S^4. In this paper, we show how to produce a trisection description of each Price twist on SX4S\subset X^4 by producing a relative trisection of X4ν(S)X^4\setminus\nu(S). Moreover, we show how to produce a trisection description of general surface complements in 4-manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1805.00429,
  title  = {Trisections of surface complements and the Price twist},
  author = {Seungwon Kim and Maggie Miller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.00429},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

27 pages, 19 figures. Significantly improved exposition and other writing as well as figures. This article has been accepted by Algebraic & Geometric Topology