Trisection genus invariance for exotic smooth 4-manifolds
Trisection genus invariance for exotic smooth 4-manifolds
Let and be smooth -manifolds, and let and denote their trisection genera, namely the minimal genera of the triple-intersection surfaces among (relative) trisections of the manifolds. The manifolds are exotic if they are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic.
Trisection genus invariance conjecture. If two smooth -manifolds and are exotic, then
This would make trisection genus a homeomorphism invariant of smooth -manifolds, conditional on the additivity conjectures for trisection genus under connected sum and boundary connected sum. The source does not establish the conjecture.
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Natsuya Takahashi, “Exotic 4-manifolds with small trisection genus”, arXiv:2308.00482 (2025).
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