Joshua Evan Greene

  1. Turaev torsion, definite 4-manifolds, and quasi-alternating knots.

    Authors: Liam Watson, Joshua Evan Greene
    Subjects: Geometric Topology
    Abstract

    We construct an infinite family of hyperbolic, homologically thin knots that
    are not quasi-alternating. To establish the latter, we argue that the branched
    double-cover of each knot in the family does not bound a negative definite
    4-manifold with trivial first homology and bounded second betti number. This
    fact depends in turn on information from the correction terms in Heegaard Floer
    homology, which we establish by way of a relationship to, and calculation of,
    the Turaev torsion.

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