Knot Floer homology and the unknotting number
arXiv:1810.05125 · doi:10.2140/gt.2020.24.2435
Abstract
Given a knot K in S^3, let u^-(K) (respectively, u^+(K)) denote the minimum number of negative (respectively, positive) crossing changes among all unknotting sequences for K. We use knot Floer homology to construct the invariants l^-(K), l^+(K) and l(K), which give lower bounds on u^-(K), u^+(K) and the unknotting number u(K), respectively. The invariant l(K) only vanishes for the unknot, and is greater than or equal to the ν^-(K). Moreover, the difference l(K)-ν^-(K) can be arbitrarily large. We also present several applications towards bounding the unknotting number, the alteration number and the Gordian distance.
arXiv comment18 pages; Corrected Typos
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