Splittings of link concordance groups

Abstract: We establish several results about two short exact sequences involving lower terms of the

n

-solvable filtration,

m a t h c a l F_{n}^{m}

of the string link concordance group

m a t h c a l C^{m}

. We utilize the Thom-Pontryagin construction to show that the Sato-Levine invariants

must vanish for 0.5-solvable links. Using this result, we show that the short exact sequence

0 i g h t a r r o w m a t h c a l F_{0}^{m} / m a t h c a l F_{0.5}^{m} i g h t a r r o w m a t h c a l F_{- 0.5}^{m} / m a t h c a l F_{0.5}^{m} i g h t a r r o w m a t h c a l F_{- 0.5}^{m} / m a t h c a l F_{0}^{m} i g h t a r r o w 0

does not split for links of two or more components, in contrast to the fact that it splits for knots. Considering lower terms of the filtration

m a t h c a l F_{n}^{m}

in the short exact sequence

0 i g h t a r r o w m a t h c a l F_{- 0.5}^{m} / m a t h c a l F_{0}^{m} i g h t a r r o w m a t h c a l C^{m} / m a t h c a l F_{0}^{m} i g h t a r r o w m a t h c a l C^{m} / m a t h c a l F_{- 0.5}^{m} i g h t a r r o w 0

, we show that while the sequence does not split for

m g e 3

, it does indeed split for

m = 2

. We conclude that the quotient

m a t h c a l C^{2} / m a t h c a l F_{0}^{2} c o n g m a t h b b Z_{2} o p l u s m a t h b b Z_{2} o p l u s m a t h b b Z_{2} o p l u s m a t h b b Z

.

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