New topologically slice knots

DOI10.2140/GT.2005.9.2129MaRDI QIDQ6827120zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Stefan Friedl, Peter Teichner

Publication date 30 January 2006

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/GT.2005.9.2129

zbMATH Keywords

Blanchfield pairingribbonslice knotsurgery

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Review text

It is well known that that all knots with trivial Alexander polynomial are topologically slice. Do there exist other slice knots? The authors present a serie of examples. In particular, the Alexander polynomial in their examples equals \((t-2)(t^{-1}-2)\).

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• The 4-dimensional disc embedding theorem and dual spheres
• Action of the Mazur pattern up to topological concordance
• 4-manifolds with boundary and fundamental group \(\mathbb{Z}\)

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