Published Paper
Inserted: 18 sep 2018
Last Updated: 8 sep 2019
Journal: Canadian Journal of Mathematics
Year: 2018
Doi: 10.4153/S0008414X19000294
Abstract:
In the present paper we extend the definition of slice-torus invariant to links. We prove a few properties of the newly-defined slice-torus link invariants: the behaviour under crossing change, a slice genus bound, an obstruction to strong sliceness, and a combinatorial bound. Furthermore, we provide an application to the computation of the splitting number. Finally, we use the slice-torus link invariants, and the Whitehead doubling to define new strong concordance invariants for links, which are proven to be independent from the corresponding slice-torus link invariant.