English

Non-orientable 4-genus of torus knots

Geometric Topology 2024-06-07 v2

Abstract

The non-orientable 4-genus of a knot KK in S3S^{3}, denoted γ4(K)\gamma_4(K), measures the minimum genus of a non-orientable surface in B4B^{4} bounded by KK. We compute bounds for the non-orientable 4-genus of knots T5,qT_{5, q} and T6,qT_{6, q}, extending previous research. Additionally, we provide a generalized, non-recursive formula for d(S13(Tp,q))d(S^{3}_{-1}(T_{p,q})), the dd-invariant of -1-surgery on torus knots.

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@article{arxiv.2405.04737,
  title  = {Non-orientable 4-genus of torus knots},
  author = {Megan Fairchild and Hailey Jay Garcia and Jake Murphy and Hannah Percle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04737},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 figures, corrected typo in references, added attribution to Lobb for disproving non-orientable analog of Milnor conjecture