The genus-two classification conjecture for 3-manifolds almost in a trisection spine

Let MM be a closed orientable 33-manifold that is not of the form #kS1×S2\#^k S^1 \times S^2, and let MM embed so as to almost lie in the spine of a genus-22 trisection of a 44-manifold XX. Genus-two classification conjecture. Then MM is a lens space L(n,1)L(n,1), and XX is either S2×S2S^2 \times S^2 or S2×~S2S^2 \tilde{\times} S^2; moreover, XX is S2×S2S^2 \times S^2 when nn is even and S2×~S2S^2 \tilde{\times} S^2 when nn is odd. The preceding construction suggests that this is the only interesting possibility in genus 22; no resolution is supplied.

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Dale Koenig, “3-manifolds lying in trisected 4-manifolds”, arXiv:1806.04870 (2018).

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