Genus-minimal crystallizations of PL 4-manifolds

Biplab Basak1
1[Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA]

Tóm tắt

For $$d\ge 2$$ , the regular genus of a closed connected PL d-manifold M is the least genus (resp., half of genus) of an orientable (resp., a non-orientable) surface into which a crystallization of M imbeds regularly. The regular genus of every orientable surface equals its genus, and the regular genus of every 3-manifold equals its Heegaard genus. For every closed connected PL 4-manifold M, it is known that its regular genus $${{\mathcal {G}}}(M)$$ is at least $$2 \chi (M) + 5m -4$$ , where m is the rank of the fundamental group of M. In this article, we introduce the concept of “weak semi-simple crystallization” for every closed connected PL 4-manifold M, and prove that $${{\mathcal {G}}}(M)= 2 \chi (M) + 5m -4$$ if and only if M admits a weak semi-simple crystallization. We then show that the PL invariant regular genus is additive under the connected sum within the class of all PL 4-manifolds admitting a weak semi-simple crystallization. Also, we note that this property is related to the 4-dimensional Smooth Poincaré Conjecture.

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