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Dotted links, Heegaard diagrams, and colored graphs for PL 4-manifolds.

Maria Rita Casali (2004)

Revista Matemática Complutense

The present paper is devoted to establish a connection between the 4-manifold representation method by dotted framed links (or -in the closed case- by Heegaard diagrams) and the so called crystallization theory, which visualizes general PL-manifolds by means of edge-colored graphs.In particular, it is possible to obtain a crystallization of a closed 4-manifold M4 starting from a Heegaard diagram (#m(S1 x S2),ω) and the algorithmicity of the whole process depends on the effective possibility of recognizing...

Harmonic morphisms and circle actions on 3- and 4-manifolds

Paul Baird (1990)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

Harmonic morphisms are considered as a natural generalization of the analytic functions of Riemann surface theory. It is shown that any closed analytic 3-manifold supporting a non-constant harmonic morphism into a Riemann surface must be a Seifert fibre space. Harmonic morphisms ϕ : M N from a closed 4-manifold to a 3-manifold are studied. These determine a locally smooth circle action on M with possible fixed points. This restricts the topology of M . In all cases, a harmonic morphism ϕ : M N from a closed...

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