Knot concordance and torsion

DOI10.4310/AJM.2001.V5.N1.A10zbMATH Open1012.57005arXivmath/9911241MaRDI QIDQ700492FDOQ700492

Authors: Charles Livingston, Swatee Naik 

Publication date: 22 October 2002

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

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.

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

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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)

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