Kirby diagrams and 5-colored graphs representing compact 4-manifolds

Maria Rita Casali, Paola Cristofori

It is well-known that in dimension 4 any framed link $(L,c)$ uniquely represents the PL 4-manifold $M^4(L,c)$ obtained from ${\mathbb{D}}^4$ by adding 2-handles along $(L,c)$. Moreove…