Higher-order linking forms for knots

DOI10.4171/CMH/72MaRDI QIDQ851099zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Constance Leidy

Publication date 13 November 2006

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408374

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander moduleBlanchfield formderived seriesknot grouplocalization of rings

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Abstract: We construct examples of knots that have isomorphic nth-order Alexander modules, but non-isomorphic nth-order linking forms, showing that the linking forms provide more information than the modules alone. This generalizes work of Trotter, who found examples of knots that have isomorphic classical Alexander modules, but non-isomorphic classical Blanchfield linking forms.

Review text

\textit{T. D. Cochran} [Algebr. Geom. Topol. 4, 347--398 (2004; Zbl 1063.57011)] introduced the higher Alexander modules \(\mathcal{A}_{n}\) of a knot, which are obtained from the derived series \(\{G^{(n)}\}\) of a knot group \(G\) by considering a factor group \(G^{(n+1)}/G^{(n+2)}\) as a right module over \(G/G^{(n+1)}\) via conjugation. In the paper under review the author shows that Cochran's ``genetic infection technique can be used to construct, for each \(n\), examples of knots which have isomorphic higher Alexander modules \(\mathcal{A}_{m}\) for every \(m\leq n\) and isomorphic linking forms defined on \(\mathcal{A}_{m}\) for every \(m<n\), but nonisomorphic linking forms defined on \(\mathcal{A}_{n}\). The corresponding result in the ``classical case (\(n=0\)) is due to \textit{H. F. Trotter} [Invent. Math. 20, 173--207 (1973; Zbl 0269.15009)] and \textit{C. Kearton} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 202, 141--160 (1975; Zbl 0305.57016)].

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