Waldhausen-type conjecture for trisections of S4S^4

A trisection of a closed 44-manifold is a decomposition into three 44-dimensional handlebodies meeting pairwise in 33-dimensional handlebodies and all together in a closed surface. The genus 00 trisection is the standard trisection of S4S^4, and a stabilization is the standard operation increasing its genus.

Waldhausen-type conjecture. Every trisection of S4S^4 is isotopic to either the genus 00 trisection or its stabilization.

This is presented as a 44-dimensional analogue of Waldhausen's theorem on Heegaard splittings. The source gives no resolution status.

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Primary source

Tsukasa Isoshima, “Trisections obtained by trivially regluing surface-knots”, arXiv:2205.04817 (2023).

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