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Concordance and 1-loop clovers

Geometric Topology 2014-10-01 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We show that surgery on a connected clover (or clasper) with at least one loop preserves the concordance class of a knot. Surgery on a slightly more special class of clovers preserves invertible concordance. We also show that the converse is false. Similar results hold for clovers with at least two loops vs. S-equivalence.

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@article{arxiv.math/0102102,
  title  = {Concordance and 1-loop clovers},
  author = {Stavros Garoufalidis and Jerome Levine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0102102},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol1/agt-1-33.abs.html