Quasipositive pretzels

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(00)00051-1MaRDI QIDQ5939008zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 10 December 2001

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9908028

braizel pretzel quasipositivity Seifert surface slice genus

Abstract: A necessary and sufficient condition for an oriented pretzel surface to be quasipositive yields an estimate for the slice genus of the boundary of an arbitrary oriented pretzel surface.

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A {quasipositive} surface in \(S^3\) is a surface which is generated from a 2-disk \(D^2\) by plumbing positive Hopf annuli \(A(0,-1)\) and passing to \(\pi_1\)-injective subsurfaces. In some sense, quasipositive surfaces are analogues in \(S^3\) of pieces of complex plane curve in \(D^4\subset C^2\). The notion of quasipositivity has been introduced by the author and explored in several of his previous papers. In this paper, he gives a necessary and sufficient condition for an oriented pretzel surface to be quasipositive. From this condition, he obtains an estimate for the slice genus of the boundary of an oriented pretzel surface.

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