Turaev genus, knot signature, and the knot homology concordance invariants

Dasbach, Oliver; Lowrance, Adam

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10698-6

Turaev genus, knot signature, and the knot homology concordance invariants
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Abstract:

We give bounds on knot signature, the Ozsváth-Szabó $\tau$ invariant, and the Rasmussen $s$ invariant in terms of the Turaev genus of the knot.

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