AI & Computingarticle2026-10-13

New Heegaard Floer slice genus and clasp number bounds

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Abstract

We define several concordance invariants using knot Floer homology, which give improvements over known slice genus and clasp number bounds from Heegaard Floer homology. We also prove that the involutive correction terms of Hendricks and Manolescu give both a slice genus and a clasp number bound.

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Authors: András Juhász, Ian Zemke

Institutions: University of Oxford, University of Oregon