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Minimal genus relative trisections of corks

  • Natsuya Takahashi

摘要

In this paper, we prove that the trisection genus of the Akbulut cork is 3 and construct infinitely many corks with trisection genus 3. These results give the first examples of contractible 4-manifolds whose trisection genera are determined except for the 4-ball. We also give a lower bound for the trisection genus of a 4-manifold with boundary. In addition, we construct low genus relative trisection diagrams of an exotic pair of simply-connected 4-manifolds with \(b_2 = 1\) b 2 = 1 .