Quasipositivity as an obstruction to sliceness

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00397-5zbMATH Open0789.57004arXivmath/9307233WikidataQ60148877 ScholiaQ60148877MaRDI QIDQ3138088FDOQ3138088

Authors: L. Rudolph 

Publication date: 20 June 1994

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For an oriented link $Lsubset{S}^3=Bd!D^4$, let $ch{i}_s(L)$ be the greatest Euler characteristic $chi(F)$ of an oriented 2-manifold $F$ (without closed components) smoothly embedded in $D^4$ with boundary $L$. A knot $K$ is {it slice} if $ch{i}_s(K)=1$. Realize $D^4$ in $C^2$ as $(z,w):|z{|}^2+|w{|}^{2}le1$. It has been conjectured that, if $V$ is a nonsingular complex plane curve transverse to $S^3$, then $ch{i}_s(Vcap{S}^3)=chi(Vcap{D}^4)$. Kronheimer and Mrowka have proved this conjecture in the case that $Vcap{D}^4$ is the Milnor fiber of a singularity. I explain how this seemingly special case implies both the general case and the ``slice-Bennequin inequality for braids. As applications, I show that various knots are not slice (e.g., pretzel knots like $Pscr(-3,5,7)$; all knots obtained from a positive trefoil $O2,3$ by iterated untwisted positive doubling). As a sidelight, I give an optimal counterexample to the ``topologically locally-flat Thom conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9307233

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zbMATH Keywords

slice knotslice-Bennequin inequalityquasi-positive braids4-ball genusalgebraic crossing numberlink of an algebraic singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Milnor fibration; relations with knot theory (32S55) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Curves in algebraic geometry (14H99)

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