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The link concordance invariant from Lee homology

Geometric Topology 2012-08-14 v2

Abstract

We use the knot homology of Khovanov and Lee to construct link concordance invariants generalizing the Rasmussen ss-invariant of knots. The relevant invariant for a link is a filtration on a vector space of dimension 2L2^{|L|}. The basic properties of the ss-invariant all extend to the case of links; in particular, any orientable cobordism Σ\Sigma between links induces a map between their corresponding vector spaces which is filtered of degree χ(Σ)\chi(\Sigma). A corollary of this construction is that any component preserving orientable cobordism from a \Kh\Kh-thin link to a link split into kk components must have genus at least k2\lfloor\frac k2\rfloor. In particular, no quasi-alternating link is concordant to a split link.

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@article{arxiv.1107.4702,
  title  = {The link concordance invariant from Lee homology},
  author = {John Pardon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.4702},
  year   = {2012}
}

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