English

Knot traces and concordance

Geometric Topology 2018-03-07 v3

Abstract

We give a method for constructing many pairs of distinct knots K0K_0 and K1K_1 such that the two 4-manifolds obtained by attaching a 2-handle to B4B^4 along KiK_i with framing zero are diffeomorphic. We use the d-invariants of Heegaard Floer homology to obstruct the smooth concordance of some of these K0K_0 and K1K_1, thereby disproving a conjecture of Abe in [Abe16]. As a consequence, we obtain a proof that there exist patterns PP in solid tori such that P(K)P(K) is not always concordant to P(U)#KP(U) \# K and yet whose action on the smooth concordance group is invertible.

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@article{arxiv.1702.03974,
  title  = {Knot traces and concordance},
  author = {Allison N. Miller and Lisa Piccirillo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.03974},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

17 pages, 15 figures. This version of the paper has been accepted by the Journal of Topology for publication

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