Primary decompositions of knot concordance

zbMATH Open1472.57006arXiv1911.08280MaRDI QIDQ2045869FDOQ2045869

Authors: Charles Livingston 

Publication date: 16 August 2021

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For all n > 0 there is a homomorphism from the smooth concordance group of knots in dimension 2n + 1 to an algebraically defined group called the rational algebraic concordance group. This algebraic concordance group splits as a direct sum of groups indexed by polynomials. For n > 1 the homomorphism is injective. This leads to what is called a primary decomposition theorem for knot concordance. In the classical dimension, the kernel of this homomorphism includes the smooth concordance group of topologically slice knots, and Jae Choon Cha has begun studying possible primary decompositions of this subgroup. Here we will show that primary decompositions of a strong type cannot exist. In more detail, it is shown that there exists a topologically slice knot K for which there is a factorization of its Alexander polynomial as f(t)g(t), where f(t) and g(t) are relatively prime and each is the Alexander polynomial of a topologically slice knot, but K is not smoothly concordant to any connected sum of a pair of knots with Alexander polynomials f(t) and g(t).

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zbMATH Keywords

knot concordanceprimary decompositionstopologically slice knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70) Knot theory (57K10)

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