Handle decompositions of rational homology balls and Casson-Gordon invariants

DOI10.1090/PROC/14035MaRDI QIDQ4577181zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

complexityconcordancerational homology 3-spherehandle decompositionribbon knotrational homology 4-ball

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70)

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.

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