Doubly slice knots with low crossing number

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Authors Charles Livingston, Jeffrey Meier

Publication date 27 October 2015

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.03368, http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/2015/21-47.html

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Alexander modulebranched covering spacesclassification of tabled knotsdouble slice genusdoubly slice knotsignatureslice knotsmoothly doubly slice knotsuperslice knotsurfaces in \(S^4\)twisted Alexander polynomial

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Abstract: A knot in the three-sphere is doubly slice if it is the cross-section of an unknotted two-sphere in the four-sphere. For low-crossing knots, the most complete work to date gives a classification of doubly slice knots through 9 crossings. We extend that work through 12 crossings, resolving all but four cases among the 2,977 prime knots in that range. The techniques involved in this analysis include considerations of the Alexander module and signature functions as well as calculations of the twisted Alexander polynomials for higher-order branched covers. We give explicit illustrations of the double slicing for each of the 20 knots shown to be smoothly doubly slice. We place the study of doubly slice knots in a larger context by introducing the double slice genus of a knot.

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The authors extend the classification of doubly slice knots (cross-sections of the unknotted \(S^2\) in \(S^4\)) from 9 to 12 crossings, save for four of the 2977 prime examples: \(11_{n34}\), \(11_{n73}\), \(12_{a1019}\) and \(12_{a1202}\). They explicitly illustrate ``the double slicing for each of the 20 knots shown to be smoothly doubly slice, noting that ``the Conway knot \(11_{34}\) is topologically (locally flat) doubly slice ... but it is unknown whether it can be smoothly sliced or double sliced while the three other knots through 12 crossings with trivial Alexander polynomial (depicted in Figure 2) are smoothly superslice. The techniques of their analysis include ``considerations of the Alexander module and signature functions as well as calculations of the twisted Alexander polynomial for higher-order branched covers. They also introduce ``double slice genus relating knots in the 3-sphere to surfaces in the 4-sphere. Prior results in the field are thoroughly explained and traced back to a question posed by Fox in [\textit{M. K. Fort jun.} (ed.), Topology of 3-manifolds and related topics. Proceedings of the University of Georgia Institute 1961. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1962; Zbl 0132.20102)].

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