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Upsilon invariants from cyclic branched covers

Geometric Topology 2021-01-15 v2

Abstract

We extend the construction of upsilon-type invariants to null-homologous knots in rational homology three-spheres. By considering mm-fold cyclic branched covers with mm a prime power, this extension provides new knot concordance invariants ΥmC(K)\Upsilon_m^C (K) of knots in S3S^3. We give computations of these invariants for some families of alternating knots and reprove some independence results in the smooth concordance group.

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@article{arxiv.1809.08269,
  title  = {Upsilon invariants from cyclic branched covers},
  author = {Antonio Alfieri and Daniele Celoria and Andras Stipsicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.08269},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

26 pages, 13 figures. New version fixes typos, minor mistakes and improves readability. Comments are welcome!

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