Topological minimal genus and L^2-signatures

DOI10.2140/AGT.2008.8.885zbMATH Open1162.57016arXivmath/0609411OpenAlexW2015404145MaRDI QIDQ945641FDOQ945641

Authors: Jae Choon Cha 

Publication date: 17 September 2008

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We obtain new lower bounds of the minimal genus of a locally flat surface representing a 2-dimensional homology class in a topological 4-manifold with boundary, using the von Neumann-Cheeger-Gromov $ho$-invariant. As an application our results are employed to investigate the slice genus of knots. We illustrate examples with arbitrarily large slice genus for which our lower bound is optimal but all previously known invariants vanish.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609411

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zbMATH Keywords

4-manifoldsslice genusminimal genus\(L^2\)-signatureminimal Betti numbervon Neumann-Cheeger-Gromov \(\rho\)-invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35) Realizing cycles by submanifolds (57R95)

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