Scissor equivalence for torus links

Abstract

This article is about a natural distance function induced by smooth cobordisms between links. We show that the cobordism distance of torus links is determined by the profiles of their signature functions, up to a constant factor.

15 pages, 5 figures, Theorem 1 added

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