Satellite operators as group actions on knot concordance

DOI10.2140/AGT.2016.16.945zbMATH Open1351.57007arXiv1306.4632OpenAlexW3102406197MaRDI QIDQ276586FDOQ276586

Arunima Ray, Christopher W. Davis

Publication date: 4 May 2016

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Any knot in a solid torus, called a pattern or satellite operator, acts on knots in the 3-sphere via the satellite construction. We introduce a generalization of satellite operators which form a group (unlike traditional satellite operators), modulo a generalization of concordance. This group has an action on the set of knots in homology spheres, using which we recover the recent result of Cochran and the authors that satellite operators with strong winding number $pm1$ give injective functions on topological concordance classes of knots, as well as smooth concordance classes of knots modulo the smooth 4--dimensional Poincare Conjecture. The notion of generalized satellite operators yields a characterization of surjective satellite operators, as well as a sufficient condition for a satellite operator to have an inverse. As a consequence, we are able to construct infinitely many non-trivial satellite operators P such that there is a satellite operator $overlineP$ for which $overlineP(P(K))$ is concordant to K (topologically as well as smoothly in a potentially exotic $S^{3}imes[0,1]$) for all knots K; we show that these satellite operators are distinct from all connected-sum operators, even up to concordance, and that they induce bijective functions on topological concordance classes of knots, as well as smooth concordance classes of knots modulo the smooth 4--dimensional Poincare Conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4632

zbMATH Keywords

group actionhomology cylinderknotknot concordancesatellite knotsatellite operator

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