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most citedThe upsilon invariant at 1 of 3-braid knots

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math.GT2026

The Conway knot has infinite concordance order

Chiara Donatone, Marc Kegel, Lukas Lewark +1

We examine how the Rasmussen invariant, satellite operations, and null-homologous twists can be used to establish infinite order of knots in the smooth concordance group. As an app…

math.GT2026

On T-positive links

Benjamin Bode, Paula Truöl

T-positive links form a subset of strongly quasipositive links that strictly contains the set of all non-split braid positive links. Analogous to Baader's characterisation of posit…

math.GT2025

Braid positive surgery diagrams

Marc Kegel, Paula Truöl

In this short note, we prove that every closed, oriented, connected 3-manifold arises as Dehn surgery along a braid positive link.

math.GT2025

On the detection of knots by their traces in high dimensions

Valentina Bais, Alessio Di Prisa, Daniel Hartman +8

For every , we demonstrate the existence of non-isotopic, smooth -knots in with diffeomorphic traces. We give two proofs: the first by generalising the RBG l…

math.GT2025

Non-complex cobordisms between quasipositive knots

Maciej Borodzik, Paula Truöl

We show that for every genus , there exist quasipositive knots and such that there is a cobordism of genus between and…

math.GT2024

Algorithms in 4-manifold topology

Stefan Bastl, Rhuaidi Burke, Rima Chatterjee +28

We show that there exists an algorithm that takes as input two closed, simply connected, topological 4-manifolds and decides whether or not these 4-manifolds are homeomorphic. In p…

math.GT2024

Minimal cobordisms between thin and thick torus knots

Sebastian Baader, Lukas Lewark, Filip Misev +1

We determine the locally flat cobordism distance between torus knots with small and large braid index, up to high precision. Here small means 2, 3, 4, or 6. As an application, we d…

math.GT2023★ 1 cited

3-braid knots with maximal 4-genus

Sebastian Baader, Lukas Lewark, Filip Misev +1

We classify 3-braid knots whose topological 4-genus coincides with their Seifert genus, using McCoy's twisting method and the Xu normal form. In addition, we give upper bounds for…

math.GT2022

Strongly quasipositive links are concordant to infinitely many strongly quasipositive links

Paula Truöl

We show that every non-trivial strongly quasipositive link is smoothly concordant to infinitely many pairwise non-isotopic strongly quasipositive links. In contrast to our result,…

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.GT2021★ 5 cited

The upsilon invariant at 1 of 3-braid knots

Paula Truöl

We provide explicit formulas for the integer-valued smooth concordance invariant for every 3-braid knot . We determine this invariant, which was defined b…