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Splitting the concordance group of algebraically slice knots

Geometric Topology 2014-11-11 v3

Abstract

As a corollary of work of Ozsvath and Szabo [math.GT/0301149], it is shown that the classical concordance group of algebraically slice knots has an infinite cyclic summand and in particular is not a divisible group.

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@article{arxiv.math/0305363,
  title  = {Splitting the concordance group of algebraically slice knots},
  author = {Charles Livingston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0305363},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol7/paper18.abs.html

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