Virtual covers of links II

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Abstract: A fibered concordance of knots, introduced by Harer, is a concordance between fibered knots that is well-behaved with respect to the fibrations. We consider semi-fibered concordance of two component ordered links L=JsqcupK with J fibered. These are concordances that restrict to fibered concordances on the first component. Motivated by some examples of Gompf-Scharlemann-Thompson, we further limit our attention to those links L where K is "close to" a fiber of J. Such L are studied with virtual covers, where a virtual knot upsilon is associated to L. We show that the concordance class of upsilon is a semi-fibered concordance invariant. This gives obstructions for certain slice and ribbon discs for the K component. Further applications are to injectivity of satellite operators in semi-fibered concordance and to knots in fibered 3-manifolds.











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