Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2020

Abstract

The Turaev genus of a link can be thought of as a way of measuring how nonalternating a link is. A link is Turaev genus zero if and only if it is alternating, and in this viewpoint, links with large Turaev genus are very nonalternating. In this paper, we study Turaev genus one links, a class of links which includes almost alternating links. We prove that the Khovanov homology of a Turaev genus one link is isomorphic to Z in at least one of its extremal quantum gradings. As an application, we compute or nearly compute the maximal Thurston Bennequin number of a Turaev genus one link.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

First Page

63

Last Page

99

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