Tau invariants for balanced spatial graphs

DOI10.1142/S0218216520500662MaRDI QIDQ5131495zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Katherine Vance

Publication date 8 November 2020

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07092

zbMATH Keywords

Heegaard Floer homologyspatial graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Knot theory (57K10) Homology theories in knot theory (Khovanov, Heegaard-Floer, etc.) (57K18) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: In 2003, Ozsv'ath and Szab'o defined the concordance invariant $au$ for knots in oriented 3-manifolds as part of the Heegaard Floer homology package. In 2011, Sarkar gave a combinatorial definition of $au$ for knots in $S^3$ and a combinatorial proof that $au$ gives a lower bound for the slice genus of a knot. Recently, Harvey and O'Donnol defined a relatively bigraded combinatorial Heegaard Floer homology theory for transverse spatial graphs in $S^3$ which extends knot Floer homology. We define a $mathbbZ$-filtered chain complex for balanced spatial graphs whose associated graded chain complex has homology determined by Harvey and O'Donnol's graph Floer homology. We use this to show that there is a well-defined $au$ invariant for balanced spatial graphs generalizing the $au$ knot concordance invariant. In particular, this defines a $au$ invariant for links in $S^3$. Using techniques similar to those of Sarkar, we show that our $au$ invariant gives an obstruction to a link being slice.

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