Genera of knots in the complex projective plane

DOI10.1142/S0218216520500819MaRDI QIDQ3388035zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jake Pichelmeyer

Publication date 8 January 2021

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01787

zbMATH Keywords

cobordismsurfacescomplex projective planehomological degreeminimal genus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Other types of cobordism (57R90) Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: Our goal is to systematically compute the $mathbbC{P}^2$-genus of all prime knots up to 8-crossings. We obtain upper bounds on the $mathbbC{P}^2$-genus via coherent band surgery. We obtain lower bounds by obstructing homological degrees of potential slice discs. The obstructions are pulled from a variety of sources in low-dimensional topology and adapted to $mathbbC{P}^2$. There are 27 prime knots and distinct mirrors up to 7-crossings. We now know the $mathbbC{P}^2$-genus of all but 2 of these knots. There are 64 prime knots and distinct mirrors up to 8-crossings. We now know the $mathbbC{P}^2$-genus of all but 9 of these knots. Where the $mathbbC{P}^2$-genus was not determined explicitly, it was narrowed down to 2 possibilities. As a consequence of this work, we show an infinite family of knots such that the $mathbbC{P}^2$-genus of each knot differs from that of it's mirror.

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