Topological minimal genus and L-2-signatures
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- Title
- Topological minimal genus and L-2-signatures
- Authors
- Cha, JC
- Date Issued
- 2008-01
- Publisher
- GEOMETRY & TOPOLOGY PUBLICATIONS
- Abstract
- We obtain new lower bounds for the minimal genus of a locally flat surface representing a 2-dimensional homology class in a topological 4-manifold with boundary, using the von Neumann-Cheeger-Gromov rho-invariant. As an application our results are employed to investigate the slice genus of knots. We illustrate examples with arbitrary slice genus for which our lower bound is optimal but all previously known bounds vanish.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/9317
- DOI
- 10.2140/AGT.2008.8.885
- ISSN
- 1472-2739
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- ALGEBRAIC AND GEOMETRIC TOPOLOGY, vol. 8, no. 2, page. 885 - 909, 2008-01
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