Relative genus bounds in indefinite four-manifolds

arXiv2012.12270MaRDI QIDQ6356742FDOQ6356742

Marco Marengon, Lisa Piccirillo, Ciprian Manolescu

Publication date: 22 December 2020

Abstract: Given a closed four-manifold $X$ with an indefinite intersection form, we consider smoothly embedded surfaces in $Xsetminus$int$(B^4)$, with boundary a knot $Ksubset{S}^3$. We give several methods to bound the genus of such surfaces in a fixed homology class. Our techniques include adjunction inequalities and the $10/8+4$ theorem. In particular, we present obstructions to a knot being H-slice (that is, bounding a null-homologous disk) in a four-manifold and show that the set of H-slice knots can detect exotic smooth structures on closed $4$-manifolds.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40) Homology theories in knot theory (Khovanov, Heegaard-Floer, etc.) (57K18) Invariants of 4-manifolds (including Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants) (57K41)

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