Whitney towers and abelian invariants of knots

DOI10.1007/S00209-019-02293-XzbMATH Open1478.57004arXiv1606.03608OpenAlexW2963932723MaRDI QIDQ2287995FDOQ2287995

Authors: Jae Choon Cha, Mark Powell, Kent E. Orr 

Publication date: 16 January 2020

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We relate certain abelian invariants of a knot, namely the Alexander polynomial, the Blanchfield form, and the Arf invariant, to intersection data of a Whitney tower in the 4-ball bounded by the knot. We also give a new 3-dimensional algorithm for computing these invariants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03608

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zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomialArf invariantsecond homotopy groupknotBlanchfield formWhitney towers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Knot polynomials (57K14) Knot theory (57K10) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40)

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