English

Genus two trisections are standard

Geometric Topology 2017-06-14 v1

Abstract

We show that the only closed 4-manifolds admitting genus two trisections are S2×S2S^2 \times S^2 and connected sums of S1×S3S^1 \times S^3, CP2\mathbb{CP}^2, and CP2\overline{\mathbb{CP}}^2 with two summands. Moreover, each of these manifolds admits a unique genus two trisection up to diffeomorphism. The proof relies heavily on the combinatorics of genus two Heegaard diagrams of S3S^3. As a corollary, we classify two-component links contained in a genus two Heegaard surface for S3S^3 with a surface-sloped cosmetic Dehn surgery.

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@article{arxiv.1410.8133,
  title  = {Genus two trisections are standard},
  author = {Jeffrey Meier and Alexander Zupan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.8133},
  year   = {2017}
}

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41 pages, 29 figures

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