Allen's unique minimal-point conjecture for torus knots
Allen's unique minimal-point conjecture for torus knots
Let be a torus knot, and let denote its smooth 4-genus. A realizable pair records the normal Euler number and first Betti number of a smooth surface in bounded by . Allen's unique minimal-point conjecture. Every torus knot has exactly one realizable pair of the form
Equivalently, all torus knots have a single realizable minimal point. The paper's abstract says that and bound smooth Möbius bands whose double branched covers are negative definite, giving counterexamples to Allen's Conjectures 1.6 and 1.8; this conjecture is identified in the source as Allen's Conjecture 1.8 and is therefore refuted.
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Primary source
Kouki Sato, “Counterexamples to Allen's conjectures”, arXiv:2407.12049 (2024).
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