Knot traces and concordance

Abstract: We give a method for constructing many pairs of distinct knots

K_{0}

and

K_{1}

such that the two 4-manifolds obtained by attaching a 2-handle to

B^{4}

along

K_{i}

with framing zero are diffeomorphic. We use the d-invariants of Heegaard Floer homology to obstruct the smooth concordance of some of these

K_{0}

and

K_{1}

, thereby disproving a conjecture of Abe in [Abe16]. As a consequence, we obtain a proof that there exist patterns

P

in solid tori such that

P (K)

is not always concordant to

and yet whose action on the smooth concordance group is invertible.

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