Comptes Rendus. Mathématique (Sep 2022)

Trisection diagrams and twists of 4-manifolds

  • Naylor, Patrick

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5802/crmath.350
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 360, no. G8
pp. 845 – 866

Abstract

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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.