Genus bound from the s-invariant for surfaces in the tangent disk bundle of S^2

Let DTS2DTS^2 be the unit disk bundle of the tangent bundle of S2S^2, with boundary RP3\mathbb{RP}^3. Let (Σ,K)(DTS2,RP3)(\Sigma,K)\subset(DTS^2,\mathbb{RP}^3) be a properly embedded orientable connected surface whose boundary is a knot KRP3K\subset\mathbb{RP}^3, and let [Σ]2[\Sigma]^2 denote its relative self-intersection. Genus-bound conjecture. One should have

2g(Σ)s(K)[Σ]22.2g(\Sigma)\geq-s(K)-\frac{[\Sigma]^2}{2}.

This conjecture extends the known genus bounds for null-homologous surfaces in DTS2DTS^2 and for arbitrary slice surfaces in CP2\B4\mathbb{CP}^2\backslash B^4.

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Qiuyu Ren, “Slice genus bound in DTS^2 from s-invariant”, arXiv:2306.17816 (2023).

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