Non-diffeomorphic minimal genus relative trisections of the same 4-manifold

Abstract

We show the existence of a $4$-manifold with boundary that admits two non-diffeomorphic minimal genus relative trisections of the same $(g,k;p,b)$-type. To prove this, we introduce a simple operation that produces a trisection diagram of a closed $4$-manifold from a relative trisection diagram.

11 pages, 10 figures