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Correction terms and the non-orientable slice genus

Geometric Topology 2016-07-28 v1

Abstract

By considering negative surgeries on a knot KK in S3S^3, we derive a lower bound to the non-orientable slice genus γ4(K)\gamma_4(K) in terms of the signature σ(K)\sigma(K) and the concordance invariants Vi(K)V_i(\overline{K}), which strengthens a previous bound given by Batson, and which coincides with Ozsv\'ath-Stipsicz-Szab\'o's bound in terms of their υ\upsilon invariant for L-space knots and quasi-alternating knots. A curious feature of our bound is superadditivity, implying, for instance, that the bound on the stable non-orientable genus is sometimes better than the one on γ4(K)\gamma_4(K).

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@article{arxiv.1607.08117,
  title  = {Correction terms and the non-orientable slice genus},
  author = {Marco Golla and Marco Marengon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.08117},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

17 pages, 2 figures. Comments welcome!

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