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Amphichiral knots with large 4-genus

Geometric Topology 2020-11-19 v1

Abstract

For each g>0g>0 we give infinitely many knots that are strongly negative amphichiral, hence rationally slice and representing 2-torsion in the smooth concordance group, yet which do not bound any locally flatly embedded surface in the 4-ball with genus less than or equal to gg. Our examples also allow us to answer a question about the 4-dimensional clasp number of knots.

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@article{arxiv.2011.09346,
  title  = {Amphichiral knots with large 4-genus},
  author = {Allison N. Miller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.09346},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures

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