Trisection diagrams and twists of 4-manifolds

Naylor, Patrick

Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 360 (2022) no. G8, pp. 845-866.

Un théorème de Katanaga, Saeki, Teragaito, et Yamada établit une connexion entre des torsions de Gluck et Price. On donne une nouvelle démonstration de ce théorème en utilisant des diagrammes de trisection, et on répond à une question de Kim et Miller.

A theorem of Katanaga, Saeki, Teragaito, and Yamada relates Gluck and Price twists of 4-manifolds. Using trisection diagrams, we give a purely diagrammatic proof of this theorem, and answer a question of Kim and Miller.

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