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Crystallizations of compact 4-manifolds minimizing combinatorially de ned PL-invariants
Casali, Maria Rita
Cristofori, Paola
Gagliardi, Carlo
2020
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2464-8728
Abstract
The present paper is devoted to present a unifying survey about some special classes of crystallizations of compact PL 4-manifolds with empty or connected boundary, called semi-simple and weak semi-
simple crystallizations, with a particular attention to their properties of minimizing combinatorially defined PL-invariants, such as the regular genus, the Gurau degree, the gem-complexity and the (gem-induced)
trisection genus. The main theorem, yielding a summarizing result on the topic, is an original contribution. Moreover, in the present paper the additivity of regular genus with respect to connected sum is proved to hold for all compact 4-manifolds with empty or connected boundary which admit weak semi-simple crystallizations.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Maria Rita Casali, Paola Cristofori, Carlo Gagliardi, "Crystallizations of compact 4-manifolds minimizing combinatorially de ned PL-invariants" in: "Rendiconti dell’Istituto di matematica dell’Università di Trieste: an International Journal of Mathematics vol. 52 (2020)", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2020
Languages
en
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internazionale
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