Near extremal Khovanov homology of Turaev genus one links

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Main Authors: Beldon, Theo, DeStefano, Mia, Lowrance, Adam M., Milgrim, Wyatt, Villaseñor, Cecilia
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Published: 2022
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author Beldon, Theo
DeStefano, Mia
Lowrance, Adam M.
Milgrim, Wyatt
Villaseñor, Cecilia
author_facet Beldon, Theo
DeStefano, Mia
Lowrance, Adam M.
Milgrim, Wyatt
Villaseñor, Cecilia
contents The Turaev surface of a link diagram $D$ is a closed, oriented surface constructed from a cobordism between the all-$A$ and all-$B$ Kauffman states of $D$. The Turaev genus of a link $L$ is the minimum genus of the Turaev surface of any diagram $D$ of $L$. A link is alternating if and only if its Turaev genus is zero, and so one can view Turaev genus one links as being close to alternating links. In this paper, we study the Khovanov homology of a Turaev genus one link in the first and last two polynomial gradings where the homology is nontrivial. We show that a particular summand in the Khovanov homology of a Turaev genus one link is trivial. This trivial summand leads to a computation of the Rasmussen $s$ invariant and to bounds on the smooth four genus for certain Turaev genus one knots.
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spellingShingle Near extremal Khovanov homology of Turaev genus one links
Beldon, Theo
DeStefano, Mia
Lowrance, Adam M.
Milgrim, Wyatt
Villaseñor, Cecilia
Geometric Topology
57K10, 57K18
The Turaev surface of a link diagram $D$ is a closed, oriented surface constructed from a cobordism between the all-$A$ and all-$B$ Kauffman states of $D$. The Turaev genus of a link $L$ is the minimum genus of the Turaev surface of any diagram $D$ of $L$. A link is alternating if and only if its Turaev genus is zero, and so one can view Turaev genus one links as being close to alternating links. In this paper, we study the Khovanov homology of a Turaev genus one link in the first and last two polynomial gradings where the homology is nontrivial. We show that a particular summand in the Khovanov homology of a Turaev genus one link is trivial. This trivial summand leads to a computation of the Rasmussen $s$ invariant and to bounds on the smooth four genus for certain Turaev genus one knots.
title Near extremal Khovanov homology of Turaev genus one links
topic Geometric Topology
57K10, 57K18
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10009