Abstract
We use the knot homology of Khovanov and Lee to construct link concordance invariants generalizing the Rasmussen s -invariant of knots. The relevant invariant for a link is a filtration on a vector space of dimension 2 {Pipe}L{Pipe}. The basic properties of the s -invariant all extend to the case of links; in particular, any orientable cobordism Σ between links induces a map between their corresponding vector spaces which is filtered of degree χ(Σ). A corollary of this construction is that any componentpreserving orientable cobordism from a Kh-thin link to a link split into k components must have genus at least ⌊k/2⌋. In particular, no quasi-alternating link is concordant to a split link.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1081-1098 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Algebraic and Geometric Topology |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - 2012 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Geometry and Topology