The nonorientable 4-genus for knots with 8 or 9 crossings

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Abstract: The non-orientable 4-genus of a knot in the 3-sphere is defined as the smallest first Betti number of any non-orientable surface smoothly and properly embedded in the 4-ball, with boundary the given knot. We compute the non-orientable 4-genus for all knots with crossing number 8 or 9. As applications we prove a conjecture of Murakami's and Yasuhara's, and give a new lower bound for the slicing number of knot.


This paper extends Livingston's table of the smooth nonorientable 4-genus of prime knots through 7 crossings ``to include all 70 knots with 8 and 9 crossings, proving also a conjecture of Murakami and Yasuhara and observing that results for this invariant date back to \textit{O. Ya. Viro}'s [Usp. Mat. Nauk 30, No. 1(181), 231--232 (1975; Zbl 0315.57015)] (the correct title of which is ``Link types in codimension 2 with boundary).











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