Concordance to boundary links and the solvable filtration
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Publication:6437148
arXiv2305.11268MaRDI QIDQ6437148FDOQ6437148
Authors: Christopher W. Davis, Shelly Harvey, Junghwan Park 
Publication date: 18 May 2023
Abstract: A geometric interpretation of the vanishing of Milnor's higher order linking numbers remains an important open problem in the study of link concordance. In the 1990's, works of Cochran-Orr and Livingston exhibit a potential resolution to this problem in the form of homology boundary links. They exhibit the first known links with vanishing Milnor's invariants that are not concordant to boundary links. It remains unknown whether every link with vanishing Milnor's invariants is concordant to a homology boundary link. In this paper we present an obstruction to concordance to a homology boundary link and a potential path to the construction of links with vanishing Milnor's invariants which are not concordant to a homology boundary link. Our obstructions and examples fit into the language of the solvable filtration due to Cochran-Orr-Teichner. Along the way we demonstrate that every homology boundary link is equivalent to a boundary link modulo the 0.5 term of the solvable filtration, in contrast to the results of Cochran-Orr and Livingston. Finally we exhibit highly solvable homology boundary links that are not concordant to boundary links, pushing the work of Cochran-Orr and Livingston deep into the solvable filtration.
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