
Trisections and link surgeries
Author(s) -
Robion Kirby,
Abigail Thompson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
new zealand journal of mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4984
pISSN - 1171-6096
DOI - 10.53733/94
Subject(s) - link (geometry) , combinatorics , mathematics , decomposition , ask price , pure mathematics , algebra over a field , biology , ecology , economy , economics
We examine questions about surgery on links which arise naturally from the trisection decomposition of 4-manifolds developed by Gay and Kirby \cite{G-K3}. These links lie on Heegaard surfaces in $\#^j S^1 \times S^2$ and have surgeries yielding $\#^k S^1 \times S^2$. We describe families of links which have such surgeries. One can ask whether all links with such surgeries lie in these families; the answer is almost certainly no. We nevertheless give a small piece of evidence in favor of a positive answer.