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 -invariant of knots. The relevant invariant for a link is a filtration on a vector space of dimension . The basic properties of the -invariant all extend to the case of links; in particular, any orientable cobordism between links induces a map between their corresponding vector spaces which is filtered of degree . A corollary of this construction is that any component preserving orientable cobordism from a -thin link to a link split into components must have genus at least . 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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15 pages, 1 figure