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Knot concordance in homology cobordisms

Geometric Topology 2022-11-14 v2

Abstract

Let C^Z\widehat{\mathcal{C}}_{\mathbb{Z}} 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 C\mathcal{C} to C^Z\widehat{\mathcal{C}}_{\mathbb{Z}} 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