Link concordance, boundary link concordance and eta-invariants

DOI10.1017/S0305004105008455zbMATH Open1075.57003arXivmath/0306149OpenAlexW2109485527MaRDI QIDQ3021801FDOQ3021801

Authors: Stefan Friedl 

Publication date: 21 June 2005

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the eta-invariants of links and show that in many cases they form link concordance invariants, in particular that many eta-invariants vanish for slice links. This result contains and generalizes previous invariants by Smolinsky and Cha--Ko. We give a formula for the eta-invariant for boundary links. In several intersting cases this allows us to show that a given link is not slice. We show that even more eta-invariants have to vanish for boundary slice links. We give an example of a boundary link $L$ that is not boundary slice but where all the known link concordance invariants computed so far are zero.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306149

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zbMATH Keywords

concordanceboundary linklink concordanceeta-invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cobordism and concordance in PL-topology (57Q60) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28)

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