Topologically and rationally slice knots
Geometric Topology
2023-04-14 v1
Abstract
A knot in is topologically slice if it bounds a locally flat disk in . A knot in is rationally slice if it bounds a smooth disk in a rational homology ball. We prove that the smooth concordance group of topologically and rationally slice knots admits a subgroup. All previously known examples of knots that are both topologically and rationally slice were of order two. As a direct consequence, it follows that there are infinitely many topologically slice knots that are strongly rationally slice but not slice.
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@article{arxiv.2304.06265,
title = {Topologically and rationally slice knots},
author = {Jennifer Hom and Sungkyung Kang and JungHwan Park},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06265},
year = {2023}
}
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11 pages, no figures, comments welcome