The conjecture on arbitrarily large topological four-genus of algebraically slice GA-knots
The conjecture on arbitrarily large topological four-genus of algebraically slice GA-knots
A GA-knot is a knot that can be written as a connected sum of algebraic knots and their reverse mirror images. A knot is algebraically slice if it bounds a genus-zero surface in a suitable algebraic concordance sense, and its topological four-genus is the minimum genus of a locally flat surface it bounds in the topological four-ball.
Arbitrarily large four-genus conjecture. There are algebraically slice GA-knots with arbitrary large topological four-genus.
The conjecture asks whether the known examples of algebraically slice, non-slice GA-knots, whose topological four-genus is one, can be extended to examples with no universal bound on their topological four-genus.
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Maria Marchwicka and Wojciech Politarczyk, “On the slice genus of generalized algebraic knots”, arXiv:2107.11299 (2023).
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