Optimal cobordisms between torus knots

DOI10.4310/CAG.2016.V24.N5.A4zbMATH Open1373.57009arXiv1501.00483MaRDI QIDQ2396640FDOQ2396640

Authors: Peter Feller 

Publication date: 24 May 2017

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct cobordisms of small genus between torus knots and use them to determine the cobordism distance between torus knots of small braid index. In fact, the cobordisms we construct arise as the intersection of a smooth algebraic curve in $mathbb{C}^2$ with the unit 4-ball from which a 4-ball of smaller radius is removed. Connections to the realization problem of $A_n$-singularities on algebraic plane curves and the adjacency problem for plane curve singularities are discussed. To obstruct the existence of cobordisms, we use Ozsv'ath, Stipsicz, and Szab'o's $Upsilon$-invariant, which we provide explicitly for torus knots of braid index 3 and 4.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00483

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zbMATH Keywords

torus knotsslice genuspositive braidsfour-genus\(\Upsilon\)-invariantcobordism distanceHeegaard-Floer concordance invariantsquasi-positive braids and links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Milnor fibration; relations with knot theory (32S55) Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70) Deformations of singularities (14B07)

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