Whitney tower concordance of classical links

DOI10.2140/GT.2012.16.1419zbMATH Open1257.57005arXiv1202.3463OpenAlexW3099296048MaRDI QIDQ441122FDOQ441122

Peter Teichner, Rob Schneiderman, James Conant

Publication date: 20 August 2012

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper computes Whitney tower filtrations of classical links. Whitney towers consist of iterated stages of Whitney disks and allow a tree-valued intersection theory, showing that the associated graded quotients of the filtration are finitely generated abelian groups. Twisted Whitney towers are studied and a new quadratic refinement of the intersection theory is introduced, measuring Whitney disk framing obstructions. It is shown that the filtrations are completely classified by Milnor invariants together with new higher-order Sato-Levine and higher-order Arf invariants, which are obstructions to framing a twisted Whitney tower in the 4-ball bounded by a link in the 3-sphere. Applications include computation of the grope filtration, and new geometric characterizations of Milnor's link invariants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3463

zbMATH Keywords

treeArf invariantWhitney towerlink concordancegropeSato-Levine invariantslice linkWhitney disk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cobordism and concordance in PL-topology (57Q60)

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