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Constructing Lagrangians from triple grid diagrams
Sarah Blackwell, David T. Gay, Peter Lambert-Cole
Links in can be encoded by grid diagrams; a grid diagram is a collection of points on a toroidal grid such that each row and column of the grid contains exactly two points. G…
From near-symplectic constructions to trisections of 4-manifolds
David T Gay
This is an expository account of the author's collaboration with Rob Kirby leading up to the theory of trisections of smooth 4-manifolds. This article was written for inclusion in…
Relations amongst twists along Montesinos twins in the 4-sphere
David T. Gay, Daniel Hartman
Isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms of the 4-sphere can be described either from a Cerf theoretic perspective in terms of loops of 5-dimensional handle attaching data, starting and…
Diffeomorphisms of the 4-sphere, Cerf theory and Montesinos twins
David T. Gay
One way to better understand the smooth mapping class group of the 4-sphere would be to give a list of generators in the form of explicit diffeomorphisms supported in neighborhoods…
From Heegaard splittings to trisections; porting 3-dimensional ideas to dimension 4
David T. Gay
These notes summarize and expand on a mini-course given at CIRM in February 2018 as part of Winter Braids VIII. We somewhat obsessively develop the slogan `Trisections are to 4-man…
Doubly pointed trisection diagrams and surgery on 2-knots
David Gay, Jeffrey Meier
We study embedded spheres in 4-manifolds (2-knots) via doubly pointed trisection diagrams, showing that such descriptions are unique up to stabilization and handleslides, and we de…