Uniqueness conjecture for generalized bridge trisections with fixed underlying trisection

Let (X,K)(X,\mathcal K) be a pair consisting of a 4-manifold and a knotted surface, and fix a trisection of XX. A generalized bridge trisection of (X,K)(X,\mathcal K) is compared with another one by perturbation and unperturbation moves, where a perturbation is a finite sequence of elementary perturbations. Uniqueness conjecture. Any two generalized bridge trisections for (X,K)(X,\mathcal K) with the same underlying trisection for XX become isotopic after a finite sequence of perturbations and unperturbations. This extends the known uniqueness result for bridge trisections of knotted surfaces in S4S^4 to generalized bridge trisections in the setting of a fixed underlying trisection of XX.

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Jeffrey Meier and Alexander Zupan, “Bridge trisections of knotted surfaces in 4–manifolds”, arXiv:1710.01745 (2017).

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