Publication:2224532

DOI10.2140/GT.2020.24.2435zbMATH Open1464.57018arXiv1810.05125OpenAlexW3118706579MaRDI QIDQ2224532FDOQ2224532

Akram S. Alishahi, Eaman Eftekhary

Publication date: 4 February 2021

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a knot K in S^3, let u^-(K) (respectively, u^+(K)) denote the minimum number of negative (respectively, positive) crossing changes among all unknotting sequences for K. We use knot Floer homology to construct the invariants l^-(K), l^+(K) and l(K), which give lower bounds on u^-(K), u^+(K) and the unknotting number u(K), respectively. The invariant l(K) only vanishes for the unknot, and is greater than or equal to the

u^-(K). Moreover, the difference l(K)-

u^-(K) can be arbitrarily large. We also present several applications towards bounding the unknotting number, the alteration number and the Gordian distance.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05125

zbMATH Keywords

torsionknot Floer homologyunknotting numberknot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) Homology theories in knot theory (Khovanov, Heegaard-Floer, etc.) (57K18)

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