Amenable signatures, algebraic solutions and filtrations of the knot concordance group (Q2663323)

There are two (by now) well-known filtrations of the knot concordance group. The filtration induced by bounded gropes (\(\mathfrak{G}_n\)) and the filtration induced by 4-manifolds bounded by 3-manifolds resulting from zero framed surgery (\(\mathfrak{F}_n\)) (where \(n\) is a half integer). In both cases it is both interesting and useful to have examples of knots representing non-trivial elements of the successive quotient groups of the filtrations. The author presents infinite rank subgroups of the quotient groups which are both disjoint from previous examples and illustrative of more properties. For example generators of the subgroups of the quotient groups are constructed from an arbitrary slice knot \(K\) whose Alexander Polynomial has degree greater than \(2\) and the knots constructed from that knot will all have Alexander invariants (up to a point) equal to those of \(K\). The paper contains much heavily referenced background material and exposition of techniques and theorems useful for the study of the knot concordance group.