The dihedral genus of a knot
The dihedral genus of a knot
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DOI:
10.2140/agt.2020.20.1939
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发表时间:
2020-01-01
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0.7
通讯作者:
Kjuchukova, Alexandra
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作者:
Cahn, Patricia;Kjuchukova, Alexandra
Let K subset of S-3 be a Fox p-colored knot and assume K bounds a locally flat surface S subset of B-4 over which the given p-coloring extends. This coloring of S induces a dihedral branched cover X -> S-4. Its branching set is a closed surface embedded in S-4 locally flatly away from one singularity whose link is K. When S is homotopy ribbon and X a definite four-manifold, a condition relating the signature of X and the Murasugi signature of K guarantees that S in fact realizes the four-genus of K. We exhibit an infinite family of knots K-m with this property, each with a Fox 3-colored surface of minimal genus m . As a consequence, we classify the signatures of manifolds X which arise as dihedral covers of S-4 in the above sense.