Metabelian representations, twisted Alexander polynomials, knot slicing, and mutation

DOI10.1007/S00209-009-0548-1MaRDI QIDQ611990zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chris Herald, Charles Livingston, Paul Kirk

Publication date 3 January 2011

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1355

zbMATH Keywords

mutationknot concordancetwisted Alexander polynomialslice knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

Abstract: Given a knot complement X and its p-fold cyclic cover X_p, we identify twisted polynomials associated to 1-dimensional linear representations of the fundamental group of X_p with twisted polynomials associated to related p-dimensional linear representations of the fundamental group of X. This provides a simpler and faster algorithm to compute these twisted polynomials, allowing us to prove that 16 (of 18 previously unknown) algebraically slice knots of 12 or fewer crossings are not slice. We also use this improved algorithm to prove that the 24 mutants of the pretzel knot P(3,7,9,11,15), corresponding to permutations of (7,9,11,15), represent distinct concordance classes.

Recommendations

• Metabelian \(\mathrm{SL}(n, \mathbb C)\) representations of knot groups. IV: Twisted Alexander polynomials
• Representations of knot groups and twisted Alexander polynomials
• Distinguishing mutant pretzel knots in concordance
• On the twisted Alexander polynomial for metabelian representations into \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb C)\)
• Higher dimensional twisted Alexander polynomials for metabelian representations

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3530652 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2118896 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5058797 (Why is no real title available?)
• A survey of classical knot concordance
• CASSON-GORDON INVARIANTS OF GENUS ONE KNOTS AND CONCORDANCE TO REVERSES
• Computations of the Ozsvath-Szabo knot concordance invariant
• Concordance and mutation
• Discriminants of Casson–Gordon invariants
• Eta invariants as sliceness obstructions and their relation to Casson-Gordon invariants
• Fibred knots and twisted Alexander invariants
• Identifying non-invertible knots
• KNOTS WHICH ARE NOT CONCORDANT TO THEIR REVERSES
• Knot Floer homology and the four-ball genus
• Knot concordance and higher-order Blanchfield duality
• Knot concordance, Whitney towers and \(L^2\)-signatures
• Knot polynomials and knot homologies
• Mutation of Knots
• Non-invertible knots exist
• Nontrivial Alexander polynomials of knots and links
• Reidemeister torsion, twisted Alexander polynomial and fibered knots
• Relative cohomology of finite groups and polynomial growth
• Representations of knot groups and twisted Alexander polynomials
• SOME INEQUALITIES BETWEEN KNOT INVARIANTS
• The Thurston norm, fibered manifolds and twisted Alexander polynomials
• The invertibility problem on amphicheiral excellent knots
• The topology of four-dimensional manifolds
• Twisted Alexander invariants, Reidemeister torsion, and Casson-Gordon invariants
• Twisted Alexander polynomial and Reidemeister torsion
• Twisted Alexander polynomial for finitely presentable groups
• Twisted Alexander polynomials and surjectivity of a group homomorphism
• Twisted Alexander polynomials detect the unknot
• Twisted Alexander polynomials of periodic knots
• Twisted knot polynomials: inversion, mutation and concordance

Cited in

(34)

• The concordance genus of a knot. II.
• Nonslice linear combinations of iterated torus knots
• Twisted Alexander polynomials, character varieties and Reidemeister torsions of double branched covers
• Traceless \(SU(2)\) representations of 2-stranded tangles
• Symmetric chain complexes, twisted Blanchfield pairings and knot concordance
• An Algorithm to Find Ribbon Disks for Alternating Knots
• Twisted torsion invariants and link concordance
• Non-slice linear combinations of algebraic knots
• Metabelian \(\mathrm{SL}(n, \mathbb C)\) representations of knot groups. IV: Twisted Alexander polynomials
• Homotopy ribbon concordance, Blanchfield pairings, and twisted Alexander polynomials
• The search for nonsymmetric ribbon knots
• On slice alternating 3-braid closures
• Twisted Alexander polynomials, chirality, and local deformations of hyperbolic 3-cone-manifolds
• Twisted Alexander invariants of knot group representations. II: Computation and duality
• A note on the topological sliceness of some 2-bridge knots
• Twisted Blanchfield pairings and twisted signatures. III: Applications
• Branched covers bounding rational homology balls
• Stabilization distance between surfaces
• The concordance classification of low crossing number knots
• Splitting numbers and signatures
• The equivariant concordance group is not abelian
• Twisted Alexander invariants of knot group representations
• Slice implies mutant ribbon for odd 5-stranded pretzel knots
• Homotopy ribbon concordance and Alexander polynomials
• Twist spinning of knots and metabolizers of Blanchfield pairings
• Alexander invariants for virtual knots
• On the slice-ribbon conjecture for pretzel knots
• Knots and 4-manifolds
• On calculating the slice genera of 11- and 12-crossing knots
• From zero surgeries to candidates for exotic definite 4‐manifolds
• On the twisted Alexander polynomial for metabelian representations into \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb C)\)
• Computing twisted Alexander polynomials for Montesinos links
• The topological sliceness of 3-strand pretzel knots
• Distinguishing mutant pretzel knots in concordance

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• KnotInfo

This page was built for publication: Metabelian representations, twisted Alexander polynomials, knot slicing, and mutation

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q611990)