Seifert surfaces in the 4-ball

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Authors: Kyle Hayden, Seung Won Kim, Maggie Miller, Junghwan Park, Isaac Sundberg Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 30 May 2022

Abstract: We answer a question of Livingston from 1982 by producing Seifert surfaces of the same genus for a knot in S3 that do not become isotopic when their interiors are pushed into B4. In particular, we identify examples where the surfaces are not even topologically isotopic in B4, examples that are topologically but not smoothly isotopic, and examples of infinite families of surfaces that are distinct only up to isotopy rel. boundary. Our main proofs distinguish surfaces using the cobordism maps on Khovanov homology, and our calculations demonstrate the stability and computability of these maps under certain satellite operations.













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