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Concordance of Bing doubles and boundary genus

Geometric Topology 2015-05-20 v1

Abstract

Cha and Kim proved that if a knot K is not algebraically slice, then no iterated Bing double of K is concordant to the unlink. We prove that if K has nontrivial signature σ\sigma, then the n-iterated Bing double of K is not concordant to any boundary link with boundary surfaces of genus less than 2n1σ2^{n-1}\sigma. The same result holds with σ\sigma replaced by 2τ2\tau, twice the Ozsvath-Szabo knot concordance invariant.

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@article{arxiv.1009.3164,
  title  = {Concordance of Bing doubles and boundary genus},
  author = {Charles Livingston and Cornelia Van Cott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3164},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, 7 figures