Computable bounds for Rasmussen's concordance invariant

Abstract

Given a diagram D of a knot K, we give easily computable bounds for Rasmussen's concordance invariant s(K). The bounds are not independent of the diagram D chosen, but we show that for diagrams satisfying a given condition the bounds are tight. As a corollary we improve on previously known Bennequin-type bounds on the slice genus.

8 pages, 1 figure. A rewrite. New results and references added, main results unchanged

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