Wall realisation (Ex)
From Manifold Atlas
Exercise 0.1.
Given a compact
-manifold
show that we can attach two
-handles to
in such a way that the geometric intersection number of immersed spheres representing these handles (i.e. the upper hemisphere, say, is given by the core of the handle und the lower on by a map into
) is
for a given
, where
is some fixed point.
Hint 0.2.
Such a construction is sketched in [Lück2001, pp.115 - 116] all that remains to be checked is the signs. In particular, you may assume that the attaching spheres of the
-handles are homotopic in
.