Concordance group of virtual knots
Geometric Topology
2022-10-04 v1
Abstract
We study concordance of virtual knots. Our main result is that a classical knot K is virtually slice if and only if it is classically slice. From this we deduce that the concordance group of classical knots embeds into the concordance group of long virtual knots.
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@article{arxiv.1606.06404,
title = {Concordance group of virtual knots},
author = {Hans U. Boden and Matthias Nagel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.06404},
year = {2022}
}