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Main Authors: Basak, Biplab, Binjola, Manisha
Format: Preprint
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13602
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author Basak, Biplab
Binjola, Manisha
author_facet Basak, Biplab
Binjola, Manisha
contents In this article, we study a class of closed connected orientable PL $4$-manifolds admitting a semi-simple crystallization and which have an infinite cyclic fundamental group. We show that the manifold in the class admits a handle decomposition in which the number of $2$-handles depends upon its second Betti number and other $h$-handles ($h \leq 4$) are at most $2$. More precisely, our main result is the following. For a closed connected orientable PL $4$-manifold having a semi-simple crystallization with the fundamental group as $\mathbb{Z}$, we have constructed a handle decomposition for $M$ as one of the following types: $(1)$ one $0$-handle, two $1$-handles, $1+β_2(M)$ $2$-handles, one $3$-handle and one $4$-handle, $(2)$ one $0$-handle, one $1$-handle, $β_2(M)$ $2$-handles, one $3$-handle and one $4$-handle, where $β_2(M)$ denotes the second Betti number of manifold $M$ with $\mathbb{Z}$ coefficients.
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spellingShingle Handle decompositions for a class of closed orientable PL 4-manifolds
Basak, Biplab
Binjola, Manisha
Geometric Topology
Combinatorics
Primary 57Q15, Secondary 05C15, 05E45, 57Q05, 57M15, 57M50
In this article, we study a class of closed connected orientable PL $4$-manifolds admitting a semi-simple crystallization and which have an infinite cyclic fundamental group. We show that the manifold in the class admits a handle decomposition in which the number of $2$-handles depends upon its second Betti number and other $h$-handles ($h \leq 4$) are at most $2$. More precisely, our main result is the following. For a closed connected orientable PL $4$-manifold having a semi-simple crystallization with the fundamental group as $\mathbb{Z}$, we have constructed a handle decomposition for $M$ as one of the following types: $(1)$ one $0$-handle, two $1$-handles, $1+β_2(M)$ $2$-handles, one $3$-handle and one $4$-handle, $(2)$ one $0$-handle, one $1$-handle, $β_2(M)$ $2$-handles, one $3$-handle and one $4$-handle, where $β_2(M)$ denotes the second Betti number of manifold $M$ with $\mathbb{Z}$ coefficients.
title Handle decompositions for a class of closed orientable PL 4-manifolds
topic Geometric Topology
Combinatorics
Primary 57Q15, Secondary 05C15, 05E45, 57Q05, 57M15, 57M50
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13602