A lower bound for the doubly slice genus from signatures

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Authors Patrick Orson, Mark Powell

Publication date 10 March 2021

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04138, http://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2021/27-14.html

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zbMATH Keywords

\(\omega\)-signaturesdoubly slice genus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: The doubly slice genus of a knot in the 3-sphere is the minimal genus among unknotted orientable surfaces in the 4-sphere for which the knot arises as a cross-section. We use the classical signature function of the knot to give a new lower bound for the doubly slice genus. We combine this with an upper bound due to C. McDonald to prove that for every nonnegative integer $N$ there is a knot where the difference between the slice and doubly slice genus is exactly $N$, refining a result of W. Chen which says this difference can be arbitrarily large.

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