Casson towers and slice links

DOI10.1007/S00222-015-0639-ZzbMATH Open1358.57023arXiv1411.1621OpenAlexW1830541787MaRDI QIDQ328677FDOQ328677

Authors: Jae Choon Cha, Mark Powell 

Publication date: 20 October 2016

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that a Casson tower of height 4 contains a flat embedded disc bounded by the attaching circle, and we prove disc embedding results for height 2 and 3 Casson towers which are embedded into a 4-manifold, with some additional fundamental group assumptions. In the proofs we create a capped grope from a Casson tower and use a refined height raising argument to establish the existence of a symmetric grope which has two layers of caps, data which is sufficient for a topological disc to exist, with the desired boundary. As applications, we present new slice knots and links by giving direct geometric constructions of slicing discs. In particular we construct a family of slice knots which are potential counterexamples to the homotopy ribbon slice conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1621

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zbMATH Keywords

Casson towersslice knotsslice-ribbon conjecturetopological 4-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70)

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