Contact: Aru Ray (aruray @ mpim-bonn.mpg.de)
Donald and Vafaee described a way to use Furuta’s 10/8 theorem to obstruct sliceness in the 4-ball and Linh Truong used a refinement, the 10/8 +4 theorem of Hopkins-Lin-Shi and Hu, to strengthen this sliceness obstruction. We will show how to expand on this technique to obtain lower bounds for four-ball genus and present some calculations for satellite knots. This is joint work in progress with Sashka Kjuchukova and Linh Truong.
Links:
[1] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3444
[3] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/12018