Communications in Analysis and Geometry

Volume 31 (2023)

Number 2

Divide knots of maximal genus defect

Pages: 367 – 379

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/CAG.2023.v31.n2.a5

Author

Livio Liechti (Department of Mathematics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

Abstract

We construct divide knots with arbitrary smooth four-genus but topological four-genus equal to one. In particular, for strongly quasipositive fibred knots, the ratio between the topological and the smooth four-genus can be arbitrarily close to zero.

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Received 17 April 2020

Accepted 25 September 2020

Published 6 December 2023