Embedding spheres in knot traces

DOI10.1112/S0010437X21007508zbMATH Open1486.57026arXiv2004.04204OpenAlexW3206508827MaRDI QIDQ5014253FDOQ5014253

Peter Feller, Mark Powell, Patrick Orson, Allison N. Miller, Arunima Ray, Matthias Nagel

Publication date: 1 December 2021

Published in: Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The trace of $n$-framed surgery on a knot in $S^3$ is a 4-manifold homotopy equivalent to the 2-sphere. We characterise when a generator of the second homotopy group of such a manifold can be realised by a locally flat embedded 2-sphere whose complement has abelian fundamental group. Our characterisation is in terms of classical and computable 3-dimensional knot invariants. For each $n$, this provides conditions that imply a knot is topologically $n$-shake slice, directly analogous to the result of Freedman and Quinn that a knot with trivial Alexander polynomial is topologically slice.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04204

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zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomialArf invariantTristram-Levine signatureslocally flat embeddingshake slice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70) Knot theory (57K10) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40)

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