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Generalized Seifert surfaces and signatures of colored links
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Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 360 (2008), 1223-1264 Request permission

Abstract:

In this paper, we use ‘generalized Seifert surfaces’ to extend the Levine-Tristram signature to colored links in $S^3$. This yields an integral valued function on the $\mu$-dimensional torus, where $\mu$ is the number of colors of the link. The case $\mu =1$ corresponds to the Levine-Tristram signature. We show that many remarkable properties of the latter invariant extend to this $\mu$-variable generalization: it vanishes for achiral colored links, it is ‘piecewise continuous’, and the places of the jumps are determined by the Alexander invariants of the colored link. Using a $4$-dimensional interpretation and the Atiyah-Singer $G$-signature theorem, we also prove that this signature is invariant by colored concordance, and that it provides a lower bound for the ‘slice genus’ of the colored link.
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  • David Cimasoni
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California Berkeley, 970 Evans Hall, Berkeley, California 94720
  • MR Author ID: 677173
  • Email: cimasoni@math.berkeley.edu
  • Vincent Florens
  • Affiliation: Departamento Ãlgebra, Geometrã y Topologã, Universidad de Valladolid, Prado de la Magdalena s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
  • Address at time of publication: Section de Mathématiques, Université de Genève, 2-4 rue du Lièvre, Case Postale 64, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland
  • Email: vincent_florens@yahoo.fr, vincent.florens@math.unige.ch
  • Received by editor(s): May 6, 2005
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: August 23, 2005
  • Published electronically: October 23, 2007
  • Additional Notes: The first author was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
    The second author was supported by Marie-Curie, MCHF-2001-0615.
  • © Copyright 2007 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 360 (2008), 1223-1264
  • MSC (2000): Primary 57M25
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-07-04176-1
  • MathSciNet review: 2357695