Exotic 4-manifolds with small trisection genus

Abstract

We show that there exists an exotic pair of 4-manifolds with boundary whose trisection genera are 4. We also construct genus-3 relative trisections for an infinite family of contractible 4-manifolds introduced by Akbulut and Kirby.

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