Knot concordance and torsion

DOI10.4310/AJM.2001.V5.N1.A10MaRDI QIDQ700492zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Charles Livingston, Swatee Naik

Publication date 22 October 2002

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9911241

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomiallinking formdouble branched coverCasson-Gordon invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cobordism and concordance in PL-topology (57Q60) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70)

Abstract: Let K be a knot in the 3-sphere with 2-fold branched covering space M. If for some prime p congruent to 3 mod 4 the p-torsion in the first homology of M is cyclic with odd exponent, then K is of infinite order in the knot concordance group. As one application, recall that the n-twisted double of an arbitrary knot has order 4 in Levine's algebraic concordance group if and only if n is positive and some prime congruent to 3 mod 4 has odd exponent in 4n+1; we show that all such knots are of infinite order in the knot concordance group. As a second application, the 2-bridge knot K(r,s) has infinite order in the knot concordance group if some prime congruent to 3 mod 4 has odd exponent in r.

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