2-torsion in the n -solvable filtration of the knot concordance group

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDQ020MaRDI QIDQ3079515zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tim D. Cochran, Constance Leidy, Shelly Harvey

Publication date 2 March 2011

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4789

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knot concordance group

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Abstract: In 1997 Cochran-Orr-Teichner introduced a natural filtration, called the n-solvable filtration, of the smooth knot concordance group, C. Its terms {F_n} are indexed by half integers. We show that each associated graded abelian group G_n=F_n/F_{n.5}, n>1, contains infinite linearly independent sets of elements of order 2 (this was known previously for n=0,1). Each of the representative knots is negative amphichiral, with vanishing s-invariant, tau-invariant, delta-invariants and Casson-Gordon invariants. Moreover each is smoothly slice in a rational homology 4-ball. In fact we show that there are many distinct such classes in G_n, distinguished by their classical Alexander polynomials and by the orders of elements in their higher-order Alexander modules.

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