The four-genus of connected sums of torus knots

DOI10.1017/S0305004117000342MaRDI QIDQ4575314zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Charles Livingston, Cornelia A. Van Cott

Publication date 13 July 2018

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01455

zbMATH Keywords

connected sumfour-genussignaturetau invarianttorus knotupsilon function

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Abstract: We study the four-genus of linear combinations of torus knots: aT(p,q) # -bT(p',q'). Fixing positive p, q, p', and q', our focus is on the behavior of the four-genus as a function of positive a and b. Three types of examples are presented: in the first, for all a and b the four-genus is completely determined by the Tristram-Levine signature function; for the second, the recently defined Upsilon function of Ozsvath-Stipsicz-Szabo determines the four-genus for all a and b; for the third, a surprising interplay between signatures and Upsilon appears.

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