Jeff Meier, University of Georgia Athens, Filling transverse links with trisected surfaces
SAS 4201We will describe an adaptation of the theory of trisections to the setting of properly embedded, smooth, compact surfaces in smooth, compact, orientable four-manifolds with boundary. The main result is that any such surface can be isotoped to lie in bridge trisected position with respect to a given trisection on the ambient four-manifold. The trisection…