Commutator handlebody of the torus

ID: commutator-handlebody-of-the-torus

Attach two one-handles to a four-dimensional zero-handle, then a two-handle along the commutator of their generators with the product zero framing. The result is . Its spine is the usual cell structure of the torus: one vertex, two one-cells, and a two-cell attached by . An embedded representative of its generator is obtained by taking a once-punctured torus carried by the two one-handles and capping its boundary by the core disk of the two-handle. It meets the relative co-core once and has self-intersection zero. The boundary is , whose integral homology has ranks .

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