On surgery curves for genus-one slice knots

DOI10.2140/PJM.2013.265.405zbMATH Open1286.57004OpenAlexW1986100565MaRDI QIDQ387724FDOQ387724

Authors: Patrick M. Gilmer, Charles Livingston 

Publication date: 23 December 2013

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If a knot K bounds a genus one Seifert surface F in the 3-sphere and F contains an essential simple closed curve alpha that has induced framing 0 and is smoothly slice, then K is smoothly slice. Conjecturally, the converse holds. It is known that if K is slice, then there are strong constraints on the algebraic concordance class of such alpha, and it was thought that these constraints might imply that alpha is at least algebraically slice. We present a counterexample; in the process we answer negatively a question of Cooper and relate the result to a problem of Kauffman. Results of this paper depend on the interplay between the Casson-Gordon invariants of K and algebraic invariants of alpha.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1518

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zbMATH Keywords

slice knotalgebraically slice knotLevine-Tristram signaturesurgery curveWhitehead doubleOzsváth-Szabó invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Floer homology (57R58) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67)

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• KnotInfo

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