Unbounded handle complexity conjecture for connected sums of the Poincaré sphere

Let Yn=#nΣ(2,3,5)Y_n=\#_n\Sigma(2,3,5), where Σ(2,3,5)\Sigma(2,3,5) is the Poincaré homology sphere. A bounding four-manifold for Yn#YnY_n\#-Y_n is a four-manifold whose boundary is Yn#YnY_n\#-Y_n. Unbounded handle complexity conjecture. The minimum number of handles in any bounding four-manifold for Yn#YnY_n\#-Y_n goes to infinity as nn goes to infinity. This would generalize the paper's lower bounds for the numbers of 11-, 22-, and 33-handles, and concerns the complexity of bounding four-manifolds even though Yn#YnY_n\#-Y_n bounds an integer homology ball.

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Paolo Aceto, Aliakbar Daemi, Jennifer Hom, Tye Lidman and JungHwan Park, “Handle decomposition complexity and representation spaces”, arXiv:2210.06607 (2024).

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