Knot concordance in homology cobordisms
Geometric Topology
2022-11-14 v2
Abstract
Let denote the group of knots in homology spheres that bound homology balls, modulo smooth concordance in homology cobordisms. Answering a question of Matsumoto, the second author previously showed that the natural map from the smooth knot concordance group to is not surjective. Using tools from Heegaard Floer homology, we show that the cokernel of this map, which can be understood as the non-locally-flat piecewise-linear concordance group, is infinitely generated and contains elements of infinite order.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1801.07770,
title = {Knot concordance in homology cobordisms},
author = {Jennifer Hom and Adam Simon Levine and Tye Lidman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.07770},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
38 pages, 11 figures; v2: Incorporates referee comments, including the addition of an appendix on smoothings of PL surfaces in 4-manifolds. This is the version to appear in Duke Math. J