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Comparing nonorientable three genus and nonorientable four genus of torus knots

Geometric Topology 2020-01-08 v2

Abstract

We compare the values of the nonorientable three genus (or, crosscap number) and the nonorientable four genus of torus knots. In particular, let T(p,q) be any torus knot with p even and q odd. The difference between these two invariants on T(p,q) is at least k/2, where p = qk + a and 0 < a < q and k0k\geq 0. Hence, the difference between the two invariants on torus knots T(p,q) grows arbitrarily large for any fixed odd q, as p ranges over values of a fixed congruence class modulo q. This contrasts with the orientable setting. Seifert proved that the orientable three genus of the torus knot T(p,q) is (p-1)(q-1)/2, and Kronheimer and Mrowka later proved that the orientable four genus of T(p,q) is also this same value.

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@article{arxiv.1907.12970,
  title  = {Comparing nonorientable three genus and nonorientable four genus of torus knots},
  author = {Stanislav Jabuka and Cornelia A. Van Cott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.12970},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

12 pages. 4 figures. We strengthened the statement of the main result