Volume 8 (2025)
Baader, Sebastian;  Feller, Peter
Asymptotics of the smooth $A_n$-realization problem
Annales Henri Lebesgue, Volume 8 (2025), pp. 555-568

Metadata

DOI10.5802/ahl.241

Abstract

We solve an asymptotic variant of a smooth version of the $A_n$-realization problem for plane curves. As an application, we determine the cobordism distance between torus links of type $T(d,d)$ and $T(2,N)$ up to an error of at most $3d$. We also discuss the limits of knot theoretic approaches aimed at solving the $A_n$-realization problem.


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