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Torsions and intersection forms of 4-manifolds from trisection diagrams

Vincent Florens, Delphine Moussard

Published 2019-01-15Version 1

Gay and Kirby introduced trisections which describe any closed oriented smooth 4-manifold $X$ as a union of three four-dimensional handlebodies. A trisection is encoded in a diagram, namely three collections of curves in a closed oriented surface $\Sigma$, guiding the gluing of the handlebodies. Any morphism $\varphi$ from $\pi_1(X)$ to a finitely generated free abelian group induces a morphism on $\pi_1(\Sigma)$. We express the twisted homology and Reidemeister torsion of $(X;\varphi)$ in terms of the first homology of $(\Sigma;\varphi)$ and the three subspaces generated by the collections of curves. We also express the intersection form of $(X;\varphi)$ in terms of the intersection form of $(\Sigma;\varphi)$.

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