Corollary 4.2. There are canonical isomorphisms
each sending to the respective empty lasagna filling.
Corollary 4.2. There are canonical isomorphisms
each sending to the respective empty lasagna filling.
Proof. The first isomorphism is given by a 1-handle attachment to as in LemmaĀ 4.1. The second isomorphism can be proved similarly: Let be a lasagna filling of and consider its intersection with a fiber . Up to a small isotopy, we may assume that the filling intersects transversely (in lasagna sheet, not in input balls) and disjointly from . Then for small , the intersection is an identity cobordism on a link . We replace this by a sum over pairs of input balls labelled with basis and dual basis elements of respectively. The resulting closed lasagna filling is supported in a single and can, thus, be identified with a scalar multiple of the empty filling. ā
Original source: arXiv:2206.04616v2