Signatures of Covering Links

DOI10.4153/CJM-1981-032-3MaRDI QIDQ3923275zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. Murasugi, Cameron McA. Gordon, Richard A. Litherland

Publication date 1981

Published in Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4153/cjm-1981-032-3

zbMATH Keywords

2-bridge knotbranched cyclic coverperiodic knotssignature invariant for a null-homologous link l in an oriented 3-manifoldsignatures of covering linkstorus-links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

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• Upper bound for the alternation number of a torus knot
• Multidimensional periodic knots
• Knot Floer homology and the four-ball genus
• Splitting the concordance group of algebraically slice knots
• Periodic projections of alternating knots
• The Levine-Tristram signature: a survey
• Alternating distances of knots and links
• Partial fiber sum decompositions and signatures of Lefschetz fibrations
• On cobordisms between knots, braid index, and the upsilon-invariant
• Gordian adjacency for torus knots
• On a nonorientable analogue of the Milnor conjecture
• On independence of some pseudocharacters on braid groups.
• Band surgery on knots and links
• On the topological 4-genus of torus knots
• Untwisting 3-strand torus knots
• On the Alexander Polynomial of a Cyclically Periodic Knot
• On Invariants of Graphs with Applications to Knot Theory
• The signature of positive braids is linearly bounded by their first Betti number
• A FORMULA FOR THE DELTA-UNKNOTTING NUMBERS OF KNOTS
• Bennequin’s inequality and the positivity of the signature
• AN ESTIMATION OF THE ALTERNATION NUMBER OF A TORUS KNOT
• Braid representations of periodic links
• Alternation numbers of torus knots with small braid index
• Classification of parabolic generating pairs of Kleinian groups with two parabolic generators
• On alternating closed braids
• The reduced knot Floer complex
• Chiral smoothings of knots
• Turaev genus, knot signature, and the knot homology concordance invariants
• On sums of torus knots concordant to alternating knots
• CASSON KNOT INVARIANTS OF PERIODIC KNOTS WITH RATIONAL QUOTIENTS
• Incoherent nullification of torus knots and links
• Generalized Seifert surfaces and signatures of colored links
• Signature, positive Hopf plumbing and the Coxeter transformation (With appendix by Peter Feller and Livio Liechti)
• Nonorientable surfaces bounded by knots: a geography problem
• Isometries of lattices and Hasse principles
• The signature and cusp geometry of hyperbolic knots
• Rasmussen invariants of Whitehead doubles and other satellites
• An infinite family of chiral, non-slice, non-alternating hyperbolic knots with vanishing Upsilon invariants
• Minimal cobordisms between thin and thick torus knots
• A non-torus positive two-bridge knot does not admit chirally cosmetic surgeries
• Asymptotics of the smooth A_n-realization problem
• On the nonorientable four-ball genus of torus knots
• Cables of the figure-eight knot via real Frøyshov invariants
• On the non-orientable 4-genus of torus knots with braid index 5 or 6
• Turk's head knots and links: a survey
• Genus generators and the positivity of the signature
• On unknotting tunnels for knots
• A criterion for knots of period 3
• Realizing Alexander polynomials by hyperbolic links

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