Knot reversal acts non-trivially on the concordance group of topologically slice knots

DOI10.1007/S00029-021-00751-1MaRDI QIDQ6317832arXivFDO

Authors Tae Hee Kim, Charles Livingston

Publication date 26 April 2019

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70) Knot theory (57K10) Homology theories in knot theory (Khovanov, Heegaard-Floer, etc.) (57K18)

Abstract: We construct an infinite family of topologically slice knots that are not smoothly concordant to their reverses. More precisely, if T denotes the concordance group of topologically slice knots and R is the involution of T induced by string reversal, then T/Fix(R) contains an infinitely generated free subgroup. The result remains true modulo the subgroup of T generated by knots with trivial Alexander polynomial.

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