Concordance invariants of doubled knots and blowing up
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- by Se-Goo Kim and Kwan Yong Lee
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 147 (2019), 1781-1788
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/14320
- Published electronically: January 9, 2019
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Abstract:
Let $\nu$ be either the Ozsváth–Szabó $\tau$–invariant or the Rasmussen $s$–invariant, suitably normalized. For a knot $K$, Livingston and Naik defined the invariant $t_\nu (K)$ to be the minimum of $k$ for which $\nu$ of the $k$–twisted positive Whitehead double of $K$ vanishes. They proved that $t_\nu (K)$ is bounded above by $-TB(-K)$, where $TB$ is the maximal Thurston–Bennequin number. We use a blowing-up process to find a crossing change formula and a new upper bound for $t_\nu$ in terms of the unknotting number. As an application, we present infinitely many knots $K$ such that the difference between Livingston–Naik’s upper bound $-TB(-K)$ and $t_\nu (K)$ can be arbitrarily large.References
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Bibliographic Information
- Se-Goo Kim
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Research Institute for Basic Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 02447 Republic of Korea
- MR Author ID: 610250
- ORCID: 0000-0002-8874-9408
- Email: sgkim@khu.ac.kr
- Kwan Yong Lee
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Research Institute for Basic Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 02447 Republic of Korea
- Email: lky_0705@naver.com
- Received by editor(s): November 29, 2017
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 1, 2018, and July 6, 2018
- Published electronically: January 9, 2019
- Additional Notes: This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2015R1D1A1A01058384).
- Communicated by: David Futer
- © Copyright 2019 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 147 (2019), 1781-1788
- MSC (2010): Primary 57M25; Secondary 57N70
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/14320
- MathSciNet review: 3910442