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A Rasmussen invariant for links in $\mathbb{RP}^3$

Geometric Topology 2024-11-20 v3 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Asaeda-Przytycki-Sikora, Manturov, and Gabrov\v{s}ek extended Khovanov homology to links in RP3\mathbb{RP}^3. We construct a Lee-type deformation of their theory, and use it to define an analogue of Rasmussen's s-invariant in this setting. We show that the s-invariant gives constraints on the genera of link cobordisms in the cylinder I×RP3I \times \mathbb{RP}^3. As an application, we give examples of freely 2-periodic knots in S3S^3 that are concordant but not standardly equivariantly concordant.

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@article{arxiv.2301.09764,
  title  = {A Rasmussen invariant for links in $\mathbb{RP}^3$},
  author = {Ciprian Manolescu and Michael Willis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.09764},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

36 pages; Section 4.4 re-written; final version, to appear in Transactions AMS

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