Nonorientable slice genus can be arbitrarily large

DOI10.4310/MRL.2014.V21.N3.A1zbMATH Open1308.57004arXiv1204.1985MaRDI QIDQ477932FDOQ477932

Authors: Joshua Batson 

Publication date: 10 December 2014

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The nonorientable four-ball genus of a knot K is the smallest first Betti number of any smoothly embedded, nonorientable surface F in B^4 bounding K. In contrast to the orientable four-ball genus, which is bounded below by the Murasugi signature, the Ozsvath-Szabo tau-invariant, the Rasmussen s-invariant, the best lower bound in the literature on the nonorientable four-ball genus for any K is 3. We find a lower bound in terms of the signature of K and the Heegaard-Floer d-invariant of the integer homology sphere given by -1 surgery on K. In particular, we prove that the nonorientable four-ball genus of the torus knot T(2k,2k-1) is k-1.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1985

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zbMATH Keywords

first Betti numbersignaturecross-sectionslice genusHeegaard-Floer \(d\)-invariant

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