Trisections of 4-manifolds with boundary

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Oct 23;115(43):10861-10868. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1717170115. Epub 2018 Oct 22.

Abstract

Given a handle decomposition of a 4-manifold with boundary and an open book decomposition of the boundary, we show how to produce a trisection diagram of a trisection of the 4-manifold inducing the given open book. We do this by making the original proof of the existence of relative trisections more explicit in terms of handles. Furthermore, we extend this existence result to the case of 4-manifolds with multiple boundary components and show how trisected 4-manifolds with multiple boundary components glue together.

Keywords: 4-manifold; handle; open book; trisection.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't