Rational homology ribbon cobordism is a partial order
Geometric Topology
2025-03-12 v2
Abstract
We show that ribbon rational homology cobordism is a partial order within the class of irreducible 3-manifolds. This makes essential use of the methods recently employed by Ian Agol to show that ribbon knot concordance is a partial order.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2204.10730,
title = {Rational homology ribbon cobordism is a partial order},
author = {Stefan Friedl and Filip Misev and Raphael Zentner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.10730},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
10 pages. v2: Misleading typo corrected in the proof of Theorem 1.2