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A higher-order genus invariant and knot Floer homology

Geometric Topology 2009-04-22 v2

Abstract

It is known that knot Floer homology detects the genus and Alexander polynomial of a knot. We investigate whether knot Floer homology of KK detects more structure of minimal genus Seifert surfaces for KK. We define an invariant of algebraically slice, genus one knots and provide examples to show that knot Floer homology does not detect this invariant. Finally, we remark that certain metabelian L2L^2-signatures bound this invariant from below.

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@article{arxiv.0901.2095,
  title  = {A higher-order genus invariant and knot Floer homology},
  author = {Peter D. Horn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.2095},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures