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

DOI10.1007/S00209-009-0548-1zbMATH Open1210.57006arXiv0804.1355OpenAlexW2114308157MaRDI QIDQ611990FDOQ611990

Authors: Chris Herald, Charles Livingston, Paul Kirk 

Publication date: 3 January 2011

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

mutationknot concordancetwisted Alexander polynomialslice knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Uses Software

• KnotInfo

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