Knot traces and concordance
Geometric Topology
2018-03-07 v3
Abstract
We give a method for constructing many pairs of distinct knots and such that the two 4-manifolds obtained by attaching a 2-handle to along with framing zero are diffeomorphic. We use the d-invariants of Heegaard Floer homology to obstruct the smooth concordance of some of these and , thereby disproving a conjecture of Abe in [Abe16]. As a consequence, we obtain a proof that there exist patterns in solid tori such that is not always concordant to and yet whose action on the smooth concordance group is invertible.
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Cite
@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