Coloring spheres in 3--manifolds

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Main Authors: Bering IV, Edgar A., Haffner, Bennett, Ortiz, Estephanie, Sanchez, Olivia
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author Bering IV, Edgar A.
Haffner, Bennett
Ortiz, Estephanie
Sanchez, Olivia
author_facet Bering IV, Edgar A.
Haffner, Bennett
Ortiz, Estephanie
Sanchez, Olivia
contents The sphere graph of $M_r$, a connect sum of $r$ copies of $S^1\times S^2$ was introduced by Hatcher as an analog of the curve graph of a surface to study the outer automorphism group of a free group $F_r$. Bestvina, Bromberg, and Fujiwara proved that the chromatic number of the curve graph is finite; bounds were subsequently improved by Gaster, Greene, and Vlamis. Motivated by the analogy, we provide upper and lower bounds for the chromatic number of the sphere graph of $M_r$. As a corollary to the prime decomposition of 3-manifolds, this gives bounds on the chromatic number of the sphere graph for any orientable 3-manifold.
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spellingShingle Coloring spheres in 3--manifolds
Bering IV, Edgar A.
Haffner, Bennett
Ortiz, Estephanie
Sanchez, Olivia
Geometric Topology
Combinatorics
The sphere graph of $M_r$, a connect sum of $r$ copies of $S^1\times S^2$ was introduced by Hatcher as an analog of the curve graph of a surface to study the outer automorphism group of a free group $F_r$. Bestvina, Bromberg, and Fujiwara proved that the chromatic number of the curve graph is finite; bounds were subsequently improved by Gaster, Greene, and Vlamis. Motivated by the analogy, we provide upper and lower bounds for the chromatic number of the sphere graph of $M_r$. As a corollary to the prime decomposition of 3-manifolds, this gives bounds on the chromatic number of the sphere graph for any orientable 3-manifold.
title Coloring spheres in 3--manifolds
topic Geometric Topology
Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10932