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most citedLinear independence of rationally slice knots

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17 papers

math.GT2026

Satellites and telescopes: a concordance formula for bordered Floer homology

Gary Guth, Sungkyung Kang

Given a knot in , its knot Floer completely determines the bordered Floer homology of its complement by a work of Lipshitz--Ozsváth--Thurston. Furthermore, the determinati…

math.GT2023★ 1 cited

Topologically and rationally slice knots

Jennifer Hom, Sungkyung Kang, JungHwan Park

A knot in is topologically slice if it bounds a locally flat disk in . A knot in is rationally slice if it bounds a smooth disk in a rational homology ball. We pro…

math.GT2023

One stabilization is not enough for closed knotted surfaces

Kyle Hayden, Sungkyung Kang, Anubhav Mukherjee

In this brief note, we show that there exist smooth 4-manifolds (with nonempty boundary) containing pairs of exotically knotted 2-spheres that remain exotic after one (either exter…

math.GT2022

One stabilization is not enough for contractible 4-manifolds

Sungkyung Kang

We construct an example of a cork that remains exotic after taking a connected sum with . Combined with a work of Akbulut-Ruberman, this implies the existence of an…

math.GT2022

Torsion in the knot concordance group and cabling

Sungkyung Kang, JungHwan Park

We define a nontrivial mod 2 valued additive concordance invariant defined on the torsion subgroup of the knot concordance group using involutive knot Floer package. For knots not…

math.GT2022★ 2 cited

The -cable of the figure-eight knot is not smoothly slice

Irving Dai, Sungkyung Kang, Abhishek Mallick +2

We prove that the -cable of the figure-eight knot is not smoothly slice by showing that its branched double cover bounds no equivariant homology ball.

math.GT2022

Involutive knot Floer homology and bordered modules

Sungkyung Kang

We prove that, up to local equivalences, a suitable truncation of the involutive knot Floer homology of a knot in and the involutive bordered Heegaard Floer theory of its com…

math.GT2021

Stabilization and satellite construction of doubly slice links

Hongtaek Jung, Sungkyung Kang, Seungwon Kim

A 2-component oriented link in is called weakly doubly slice if it is a cross-section of an unknotted sphere in , and strongly doubly slice if it is a cross-section of a…

math.GT2021★ 1 cited

On the nonorientable four-ball genus of torus knots

Fraser Binns, Sungkyung Kang, Jonathan Simone +1

The nonorientable four-ball genus of a knot in is the minimal first Betti number of nonorientable surfaces in bounded by . By amalgamating ideas from involutive…

math.GT2020★ 8 cited

Linear independence of rationally slice knots

Jennifer Hom, Sungkyung Kang, JungHwan Park +1

A knot in is rationally slice if it bounds a disk in a rational homology ball. We give an infinite family of rationally slice knots that are linearly independent in the knot…

math.GT2020

Concordance invariants and the Turaev genus

Hongtaek Jung, Sungkyung Kang, Seungwon Kim

We show that the differences between various concordance invariants of knots, including Rasmussen's -invariant and its generalizations -invariants, give lower bounds to the…

math.GT2020

Ribbon knots, cabling, and handle decompositions

Jennifer Hom, Sungkyung Kang, JungHwan Park

The fusion number of a ribbon knot is the minimal number of 1-handles needed to construct a ribbon disk. The strong homotopy fusion number of a ribbon knot is the minimal number of…

math.GT2019★ 2 cited

Link homology theories and ribbon concordances

Sungkyung Kang

It was recently proved by several authors that ribbon concordances induce injective maps in knot Floer homology, Khovanov homology, and the Heegaard Floer homology of the branched…

math.GT2019

Connected Floer homology of covering involutions

Antonio Alfieri, Sungkyung Kang, Andras I. Stipsicz

Using the covering involution on the double branched cover of the three-sphere branched along a knot, and adapting ideas of Hendricks-Manolescu and Hendricks-Hom-Lidman, we define…

math.GT2018★ 2 cited

-equivariant Heegaard Floer cohomology of knots in as a strong Heegaard invariant

Sungkyung Kang

The -equivariant Heegaard Floer cohomlogy of a knot in , constructed by Hendricks, Lipshitz, and Sarkar, is an isot…

math.GT2018★ 2 cited

A transverse knot invariant from Z2-equivariant Heegaard Floer cohomology

Sungkyung Kang

We define an invariant of based transverse links, as a well-defined element inside the equivariant Heegaard Floer cohomology of its branched double cover, defined by Lipschitz, Hen…

math.GT2016★ 2 cited

Spectral order for contact manifolds with convex boundary

András Juhász, Sungkyung Kang

We extend the Heegaard Floer homological definition of spectral order for closed contact 3-manifolds due to Kutluhan, Matić, Van Horn-Morris, and Wand to contact 3-manifolds with c…