English

Average four-genus of two-bridge knots

Geometric Topology 2025-04-08 v2

Abstract

We prove that the expected value of the ratio between the smooth four-genus and the Seifert genus of two-bridge knots tends to zero as the crossing number tends to infinity.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1902.05721,
  title  = {Average four-genus of two-bridge knots},
  author = {Sebastian Baader and Alexandra Kjuchukova and Lukas Lewark and Filip Misev and Arunima Ray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.05721},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures, 0 footnotes. To appear in Proceedings of the AMS. Comments welcome!

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