Computable bounds for Rasmussen's concordance invariant.

Authors: Andrew Lobb
Subjects: Geometric Topology
link: http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2745
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 chosen, but we show that for knots satisfying a given condition the
bounds are tight. This improves on previously known Bennequin-type bounds.