English

Knot modules and ribbon 2-knots

Geometric Topology 2018-07-20 v2

Abstract

We show that every Z\mathbb{Z}-torsion free knot module is realized by a ribbon 2-knot with group of geometric dimension at most 2, and give some partial results on the characterization of the knot modules of fibred ribbon 2-knots.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1806.05313,
  title  = {Knot modules and ribbon 2-knots},
  author = {Jonathan A. Hillman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.05313},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Since submitting v1 we have learnt that our Theorem 1 is part of a more substantial result of Kawauchi (Theorem 3.2 in math.GT 0904.1853)

R2 v1 2026-06-23T02:29:27.332Z