Concordance, Crossing Changes, and Knots in Homology Spheres

DOI10.4153/S0008439519000791MaRDI QIDQ5148073zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christopher W. Davis

Publication date 29 January 2021

Published in Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09225

zbMATH Keywords

\(3\)-handlecrossing changehomology \(3\)-spherehomology \(4\)-ballhomology cobordismhomology concordanceimmersed annulusimmersed diskslice knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) Generalized knots (virtual knots, welded knots, quandles, etc.) (57K12) Cobordism in PL-topology (57Q20) Cobordism and concordance in PL-topology (57Q60) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Other types of cobordism (57R90)

Abstract: Any knot in $S^3$ may be reduced to a slice knot by crossing changes. Indeed, this slice knot can be taken to be the unknot. In this paper we study the question of when the same holds for knots in homology spheres. We show that a knot in a homology sphere is nullhomotopic in a smooth homology ball if and only if that knot is smoothly concordant to a knot which is homotopic to a smoothly slice knot. As a consequence, we prove that the equivalence relation on knots in homology spheres given by cobounding immersed annuli in a homology cobordism is generated by concordance in homology cobordisms together with homotopy in a homology sphere.

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