Upsilon-type concordance invariants

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Abstract: To a region C of the plane satisfying a suitable convexity condition we associate a knot concordance invariant UpsilonC. For appropriate choices of the domain this construction gives back some known knot Floer concordance invariants like Rasmussen's hi invariants, and the Ozsv' ath-Stipsicz-Szab' o upsilon invariant. Furthermore, to three such regions C, C+ and C− we associate invariants UpsilonCpm,C generalising Kim-Livingston secondary invariant. We show how to compute these invariants for some interesting classes of knots (including alternating and torus knots), and we use them to obstruct concordances to Floer thin knots and algebraic knots.


In this paper, a generalization of the knot concordance invariant \(\Upsilon\) is constructed; as an application, it is shown that for odd \(q\geq 7\), the pretzel knot \(P(-2,3,q)\) is not concordant to a sum of algebraic knots. Let us give some background and details. Associating to a knot \(K\) its Floer chain complex \(\text{CFK}^{\infty}(K)\) up to stable equivalence \(\sim\) gives a homomorphism from the smooth concordance group to the group \(\mathcal{CFK}/\sim\) of stable equivalence classes of certain chain complexes (with tensor product as group operation) [\textit{J. Hom}, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 26, No. 2, Article ID 1740015, 24 p. (2017; Zbl 1360.57002)]. This concordance invariant is powerful; but extracting accessible information from it is non-trivial. One way to do so is given by the \(\Upsilon\)-invariant [\textit{P. Ozsváth} et al., Adv. Math. 315, 366--426 (2017; Zbl 1383.57020)], which associates to a class in \(\mathcal{CFK}/\sim\), represented by a chain complex \(A\), (and thus to a knot concordance class) a piecewise-linear function \([0,1]\to\mathbb{R}\) in the following way: at \(t\in [0,1]\), mix the two filtrations of \(A\) linearly (in a way determined by \(t\)) to obtain another filtration; let \(\Upsilon_t(K)\) be the minimal degree with respect to that filtration of a cycle of \(A\) that is not a boundary. In the paper at hand, the two filtrations are mixed more flexibly, in a way determined by a south-west region \(C\) (a subset of \(\mathbb{R}^2\) that is closed under walking towards the south or west). For every such \(C\), this yield a concordance invariant \(\Upsilon^C(K) \in\mathbb{R}\). Since \(\Upsilon_t = \Upsilon^C\) for \(C\) a certain south-west region whose boundary is a line with slope determined by \(t\), the construction of the paper is indeed more general than the original \(\Upsilon\) invariant. In fact, it also contains the \(h_i\) invariants constructed in Rasmussen's PhD thesis as a special case. Furthermore, Kim-Livingston's secondary \(\Upsilon\)-invariants are generalized [\textit{S.-G. Kim} and \textit{C. Livingston}, Q. J. Math. 69, No. 3, 799--813 (2018; Zbl 1402.57016)]. As an application, it is shown that the knot \(T_{8,5}\# -T_{6,5} \# -T_{4,3}\) is not concordant to a Floer thin knot. This cannot be detected using the original \(\Upsilon\)-invariant.











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