Handle decompositions of rational homology balls and Casson-Gordon invariants

DOI10.1090/PROC/14035zbMATH Open1400.57022arXiv1610.10032OpenAlexW2963633031MaRDI QIDQ4577181FDOQ4577181

Authors: Paolo Aceto, Marco Golla, Ana G. Lecuona 

Publication date: 17 July 2018

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

Abstract: Given a rational homology sphere which bounds rational homology balls, we investigate the complexity of these balls as measured by the number of 1-handles in a handle decomposition. We use Casson-Gordon invariants to obtain lower bounds which also lead to lower bounds on the fusion number of ribbon knots. We use Levine-Tristram signatures to compute these bounds and produce explicit examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.10032

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zbMATH Keywords

complexityconcordancerational homology 3-spherehandle decompositionribbon knotrational homology 4-ball

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70)

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