Rational homology spheres and four-ball genus
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Using the Heegaard Floer homology of Ozsvath and Szabo we investigate obstructions to definite intersection pairings bounded by rational homology spheres. As an application we obtain new lower bounds for the four-ball genus of Montesinos links.
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@article{arxiv.math/0308073,
title = {Rational homology spheres and four-ball genus},
author = {Brendan Owens and Saso Strle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0308073},
year = {2007}
}
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21 pages, 4 figures (xypic)