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arxiv: 1511.03883 · v2 · pith:WOHOVNQZnew · submitted 2015-11-12 · 🧮 math.GT

Positive braid knots of maximal topological 4-genus

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We show that a positive braid knot has maximal topological 4-genus exactly if it has maximal signature invariant. As an application, we determine all positive braid knots with maximal topological 4-genus and compute the topological 4-genus for all positive braid knots with up to 12 crossings.

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