Rational concordance of double twist knots
Geometric Topology
2025-04-11 v1
Abstract
Double twist knots are known to be rationally slice if , , or . In this paper, we prove the converse. It is done by showing that infinitely many prime power-fold cyclic branched covers of the other cases do not bound a rational ball. Our rational ball obstruction is based on Donaldson's diagonalization theorem.
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@article{arxiv.2504.07636,
title = {Rational concordance of double twist knots},
author = {Jaewon Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.07636},
year = {2025}
}
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19 pages, 4 figures