Obstructing four-torsion in the classical knot concordance group

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214425023zbMATH Open1025.57013arXivmath/9802071OpenAlexW1603111119WikidataQ115194280 ScholiaQ115194280MaRDI QIDQ1569239FDOQ1569239

Authors: Charles Livingston, Swatee Naik 

Publication date: 26 June 2000

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that if the order of the first homology of the 2-fold branched cover of a knot K in the 3-sphere is given by pm where p is a prime congruent to 3 mod 4 and gcd(p,m) =1, then K is of infinite order in the knot concordance group. This provides an obstruction to classical knots being of order 4. In particular, there are 11 prime knots with 10 or fewer crossings that are of order 4 in the algebraic concordance group; all are infinite order in concordance. Another corollary states that any knot with Alexander polynomial 5t^2 - 11t + 5 is of infinite order in concordance; Levine proved that in higher dimensions all such knots are of order 4.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9802071

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zbMATH Keywords

torsionknot concordance group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70)

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