The four-genus of a link, Levine–Tristram signatures and satellites
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Publication:2969702
DOI10.1142/S0218216517400089zbMATH Open1361.57015arXiv1605.06833OpenAlexW2963039750MaRDI QIDQ2969702FDOQ2969702
Authors: Mark Powell 
Publication date: 23 March 2017
Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We give a new proof that the Levine-Tristram signatures of a link give lower bounds for the minimal sum of the genera of a collection of oriented, locally flat, disjointly embedded surfaces that the link can bound in the 4-ball. We call this minimal sum the 4-genus of the link. We also extend a theorem of Cochran, Friedl and Teichner to show that the 4-genus of a link does not increase under infection by a string link, which is a generalised satellite construction, provided that certain homotopy triviality conditions hold on the axis curves, and that enough Milnor's invariants of the infection string link vanish. We construct knots for which the combination of the two results determines the 4-genus.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06833
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