Quasipositive Links and Connected Sums

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-67
Author(s):  
S. Yu. Orevkov
Keyword(s):  
Connected Sums

Constructing symplectic manifolds

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dusa McDuff ◽  
Dietmar Salamon
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Symplectic Manifolds ◽  
Homotopy Equivalence ◽  
Codimension Two ◽  
Open Manifolds ◽  
Connected Sums ◽  
Symplectic Forms ◽  
Ambient Manifold ◽  
Blowing Up ◽  
Four Manifolds

This chapter examines various ways to construct symplectic manifolds and submanifolds. It begins by studying blowing up and down in both the complex and the symplectic contexts. The next section is devoted to a discussion of fibre connected sums and describes Gompf’s construction of symplectic four-manifolds with arbitrary fundamental group. The chapter also contains an exposition of Gromov’s telescope construction, which shows that for open manifolds the h-principle rules and the inclusion of the space of symplectic forms into the space of nondegenerate 2-forms is a homotopy equivalence. The final section outlines Donaldson’s construction of codimension two symplectic submanifolds and explains the associated decompositions of the ambient manifold.

scholarly journals The four-genus of connected sums of torus knots

2017 ◽  
Vol 164 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-550
Author(s):  
CHARLES LIVINGSTON ◽  
CORNELIA A. VAN COTT
Keyword(s):  
Linear Combinations ◽  
Torus Knots ◽  
Connected Sums ◽  
The Third

AbstractWe study the four-genus of linear combinations of torus knots:g4(aT(p, q) #-bT(p′, q′)). Fixing positivep, q, p′, andq′, our focus is on the behavior of the four-genus as a function of positiveaandb. Three types of examples are presented: in the first, for allaandbthe four-genus is completely determined by the Tristram–Levine signature function; for the second, the recently defined Upsilon function of Ozsváth–Stipsicz–Szabó determines the four-genus for allaandb; for the third, a surprising interplay between signatures and Upsilon appears.

Connected Sums

1997 ◽  
pp. 159-177
Author(s):  
A. T. Fomenko ◽  
S. V. Matveev
Keyword(s):  
Connected Sums

scholarly journals The SL(2, C) Casson Invariant for Knots and the Â-polynomial

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans U. Boden ◽  
Cynthia L. Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Large Class ◽  
Product Formula ◽  
Integral Homology ◽  
Connected Sum ◽  
Connected Sums ◽  
Knot Invariant ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Arbitrary Knots

AbstractIn this paper, we extend the definition of the SL(2,ℂ) Casson invariant to arbitrary knots K in integral homology 3-spheres and relate it to the m-degree of the Â-polynomial of K. We prove a product formula for the Â-polynomial of the connected sum K1#K2 of two knots in S3 and deduce additivity of the SL(2,ℂ) Casson knot invariant under connected sums for a large class of knots in S3. We also present an example of a nontrivial knot K in S3 with trivial Â-polynomial and trivial SL(2,ℂ) Casson knot invariant, showing that neither of these invariants detect the unknot.

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