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Analytic knots, satellites and the 4-ball genus

Geometric Topology 2017-02-20 v3 Complex Variables

Abstract

Call a smooth knot (or smooth link) in the unit sphere in C2\mathbb{C}^2 analytic (respectively, smoothly analytic) if it bounds a complex curve (respectively, a smooth complex curve) in the complex ball. Let KK be a smoothly analytic knot. For a small tubular neighbourhood of KK we give a sharp lower bound for the 4-ball genus of analytic links LL contained in it.

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@article{arxiv.1504.06496,
  title  = {Analytic knots, satellites and the 4-ball genus},
  author = {Burglind Jöricke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.06496},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

revision, inaccuracies corrected, added in proof