Trisections of surface complements and the Price twist
Geometric Topology
2020-03-11 v3
Abstract
Given an smoothly embedded in a 4-manifold with Euler number 2 or -2, the Price twist is a surgery operation on yielding (up to) three different 4-manifolds: . This is of particular interest when , as then is a homotopy 4-sphere which is not obviously diffeomorphic to . In this paper, we show how to produce a trisection description of each Price twist on by producing a relative trisection of . 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