Knot concordance and higher-order Blanchfield duality
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Knot concordance and higher-order Blanchfield duality
zbMATH Open document ID: 1175.57004
author: Tim D. Cochran
author: Constance Leidy
author: Shelly Harvey
published in: Geometry \& Topology
publication date: 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3082
review text: The authors introduce new techniques for studying the knot concordance group \(\mathcal C\) and apply these to resolve a long-standing conjecture about whether certain natural families of knots contain nonslice knots. The conjecture referred to above involves recursive families \(J_n\) of algebraically slice knots modeled on an initial knot \(J_0\) using a banding construction. For a knot \(K\) and a point in the circle, there is an associated Levine-Tristram signature, which then gives a signature function defined on the circle. Let \(\rho_0(K)\) denote the integral of this function over the unit circle, normalized to have length 1 -- this is an average Levine-Tristram signature for \(K\). The authors show: There is a constant \(C\) such that if \(|\rho_0(J_0)| > C,\) then for each \(n \geq 0, \, J_n\) is of infinite order in the topological and smooth knot concordance groups. Furthermore, there is a constant \(D\) such that if \(J_2\) is a slice knot then \(\rho_0(J_0) \in \{0,D\}.\) This result was classically known only for \(n = 0,1,\) using Levine-Tristram signatures and Casson-Gordon invariants respectively. The constant \(D\) is a special real number associated to the \(9_{46}\) knot and may be 0. Another major result of the paper is to show that each quotient \(\mathcal F_n/\mathcal F_{n.5}\) in the Cochran-Orr-Teichner filtration \(\{\mathcal F_n\}\) of \(\mathcal C\) has infinite rank. This was previously known only for \(n = 0,1,2.\) The construction of the examples is done in the smooth category and so establishes these results on the quotients in the smooth category as well. One facet of the techniques involved is that they are simpler than earlier techniques used by \textit{T. D. Cochran} and \textit{P. Teichner} [Duke Math. J. 137, No. 2, 337--379 (2007; Zbl 1186.57006)] to show that the quotients had rank at least one. The knots \(J_n\) (for suitable \(J_0\)) are used in the proof.
reviewed by: Terry Lawson
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M10
zbMATH DE Number: 5530208
zbMATH Keywords: concordance
zbMATH Keywords: \((n)\)-solvable
zbMATH Keywords: knot
zbMATH Keywords: Blanchfield form
zbMATH Keywords: von Neumann signature
MaRDI profile type: Publication
Wikidata QID: Q56813196
OpenAlex ID: W2073639327
arXiv ID: 0710.3082
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DOI: 10.2140/GT.2009.13.1419
description: scientific article