The algebraic concordance order of a knot

DOI10.1142/S0218216510008571zbMATH Open1230.57008arXiv0806.3068OpenAlexW2963921357MaRDI QIDQ3074567FDOQ3074567

Authors: Charles Livingston 

Publication date: 9 February 2011

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Levine defined the rational algebraic knot concordance group and proved that each nontrivial element is of order two, of order four, or of infinite order. The determination of the order of an element depends on a p-adic analysis for all primes p. Here we develop effective means to determine the order of any element that is in the image of the integral algebraic concordance group by restricting the set of primes that need to be considered and by finding simple tests that often avoid p-adic considerations. The paper includes an outline of how the results apply to give the determination of the algebraic orders of all 2,977 prime knots of 12 or fewer crossings. The paper also includes a short expository account of the necessary background in p-adic numbers and Witt groups of bilinear forms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3068

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zbMATH Keywords

slice knotsKnot concordancealgebraic concordance

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