A note on three-fold branched covers of $S^4$

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Main Authors: Blair, Ryan, Cahn, Patricia, Kjuchukova, Alexandra, Meier, Jeffrey
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author Blair, Ryan
Cahn, Patricia
Kjuchukova, Alexandra
Meier, Jeffrey
author_facet Blair, Ryan
Cahn, Patricia
Kjuchukova, Alexandra
Meier, Jeffrey
contents We show that any 4-manifold admitting a $(g;k_1,k_2,0)$-trisection is an irregular 3-fold cover of the 4-sphere whose branching set is a surface in $S^4$, smoothly embedded except for one singular point which is the cone on a link. A 4-manifold admits such a trisection if and only if it has a handle decomposition with no 1-handles; it is conjectured that all simply-connected 4-manifolds have this property.
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spellingShingle A note on three-fold branched covers of $S^4$
Blair, Ryan
Cahn, Patricia
Kjuchukova, Alexandra
Meier, Jeffrey
Geometric Topology
57M12, 57M25
We show that any 4-manifold admitting a $(g;k_1,k_2,0)$-trisection is an irregular 3-fold cover of the 4-sphere whose branching set is a surface in $S^4$, smoothly embedded except for one singular point which is the cone on a link. A 4-manifold admits such a trisection if and only if it has a handle decomposition with no 1-handles; it is conjectured that all simply-connected 4-manifolds have this property.
title A note on three-fold branched covers of $S^4$
topic Geometric Topology
57M12, 57M25
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11788