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Slice-torus Concordance Invariants and Whitehead Doubles of Links
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2019
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In this 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 of the corresponding slice-torus link invariant.
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