Classifying Pl 5-Manifolds by Regular Genus: The Boundary Case

Casali, Maria Rita

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 49 (1997) no. 2, pp. 193-211

Résumé

In the present paper, we face the problem of classifying classes of orientable PL 5-manifolds M 5 with h ≥ 1 boundary components, by making use of a combinatorial invariant called regular genusG(M 5). In particular, a complete classification up to regular genus five is obtained: where denotes the regular genus of the boundary ∂M 5 and denotes the connected sumof h ≥ 1 orientable 5-dimensional handlebodies Yαi of genus αi ≥ 0 (i = 1, . . . ,h), so that .Moreover, we give the following characterizations of orientable PL 5-manifolds M 5 with boundary satisfying particular conditions related to the “gap” between G(M 5) and either G(∂M 5) or the rank of their fundamental group rk(π1(M 5)): Further, the paper explains how the above results (together with other known properties of regular genus of PL manifolds) may lead to a combinatorial approach to 3-dimensional Poincaré Conjecture.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-1997-010-3

Mots-clés : 57N15, 57Q15, 05C10

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