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Comparing Bennequin-type inequalities
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Comparing Bennequin-type inequalities

Elaina Aceves, Keiko Kawamuro and Linh Truong
New York journal of mathematics, Vol.27, pp.124-140
01/01/2021

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Abstract

The slice-Bennequin inequality gives an upper bound for the self-linking number of a knot in terms of its four-ball genus. The s-Bennequin and tau-Bennequin inequalities provide upper bounds on the self-linking number of a knot in terms of the Rasmussen s invariant and the Ozsvath-Szabo tau invariant. We exhibit examples in which the difference between self-linking number and four-ball genus grows arbitrarily large, whereas the s-Bennequin inequality and the tau-Bennequin inequality are both sharp.
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