A lower bound for the doubly slice genus from signatures

zbMATH Open1459.57014arXiv2008.04138MaRDI QIDQ1998994FDOQ1998994

Authors: Patrick Orson, Mark Powell 

Publication date: 10 March 2021

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04138

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zbMATH Keywords

\(\omega\)-signaturesdoubly slice genus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10)

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