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We define an algebraic group comprising symmetric chain complexes which captures the first two stages of the Cochran-Orr-Teichner solvable filtration of the knot concordance group in a single invariant. To achieve this we impose additional…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Mark Powell

By a recent result of Livingston, it is known that if a knot has a prime power branched cyclic cover that is not a homology sphere, then there is an infinite family of non-concordant knots having the same Seifert form as the knot. In this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Taehee Kim

Shake slice generalizes the notion of a slice link, naturally extending the notion of shake slice knots to links. There is also a relative version, shake concordance, that generalizes link concordance. We show that if two links are shake…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Anthony Bosman

We construct an infinite family of smoothly slice knots that we prove are topologically doubly slice. Using the correction terms coming from Heegaard Floer homology, we show that none of these knots is smoothly doubly slice. We use these…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Jeffrey Meier

Knot concordance plays a crucial role in the low dimensional topology. We propose a very elementary techniques which allows one to construct a lot of sliceness obstructions for knots in the full torus. Our approach deals with group…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Vassily Olegovich Manturov , Igor Mikhailovich Nikonov

We describe an error in the proof of a key proposition, which was necessary for the proof of the main result. Alternate proofs of the main result are given by Ozsvath-Stipsicz-Szabo and Dai-Hom-Stoffregen-Truong.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Jennifer Hom

Let $F$ be an incompressible, meridionally incompressible and not boundary-parallel surface with boundary in the complement of an algebraic tangle $(B,T)$. Then $F$ separates the strings of $T$ in $B$ and the boundary slope of $F$ is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-05-07 Makoto Ozawa

We construct infinitely many smoothly slice knots having topological slice discs that are non-approximable by smooth slice discs.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Min Hoon Kim , Mark Powell

We investigate linearity of amalgams of subgroups of algebraic groups along intersections with algebraic subgroups. In the process, we establish linearity of certain "doubles" of linear groups, and obtain new examples of finitely generated…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Sami Douba , Konstantinos Tsouvalas

The concordance genus of a knot is the least genus of any knot in its concordance class. It is bounded above by the genus of the knot, and bounded below by the slice genus, two well-studied invariants. In this paper we consider the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-20 M. Kate Kearney

We address the primary decomposition of the knot concordance group in terms of the solvable filtration and higher-order von Neumann $\rho$-invariants by Cochran, Orr, and Teichner. We show that for a nonnegative integer n, if the connected…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Min Hoon Kim , Se-Goo Kim , Taehee Kim

In this article, we defined a knotted subgroup of a Lie group and considered a geometric notion of equivalence among them. We characterized these knotted subgroups in terms of one-parameter subgroups and provided examples in the case of…

Prime power fold cyclic branched covers along smoothly slice knots all bound rational homology balls. This phenomenon, however, does not characterize slice knots. In this paper, we give a new construction of non-slice knots that have the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Paolo Aceto , Jeffrey Meier , Allison N. Miller , Maggie Miller , JungHwan Park , András I. Stipsicz

The $T$-genus of a knot is the minimal number of borromean-type triple points on a normal singular disk with no clasp bounded by the knot; it is an upper bound for the slice genus. Kawauchi, Shibuya and Suzuki characterized the slice knots…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Delphine Moussard

We show that if the connected sum of two knots with coprime Alexander polynomials has vanishing von Neumann rho-invariants associated with certain metabelian representations then so do both knots. As an application, we give a new example of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-10-11 Se-Goo Kim , Taehee Kim

In this paper we find infinitely many lattices in $SL(4,\mathbb{R})$ each of which contains thin subgroups commensurable with the figure-eight knot group.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Samuel A. Ballas , Darren Long

In this short note we observe that a result of Eliashberg and Polterovitch allows to use the doubly slice genus as an obstruction for a Legendrian knot to be a slice of a concordance from the trivial Legendrian knot with maximal…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Baptiste Chantraine , Noémie Legout

Let $M_K$ be the 2-fold branched cover of a knot $K in $S^3$. If $H_1(M_K) = {\bf Z}_3 \oplus {\bf Z}_{3^{2i}} \oplus G$ where 3 does not divide the order of $G$ then $K$ is not of order 4 in the concordance group. This obstruction detects…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-30 Charles Livingston , Swatee Naik

We define a notion of concordance based on Euler characteristic, and show that it gives rise to a concordance group of links in the three-sphere, which has the concordance group of knots as a direct summand with infinitely generated…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Andrew Donald , Brendan Owens

We define a nontrivial mod 2 valued additive concordance invariant defined on the torsion subgroup of the knot concordance group using involutive knot Floer package. For knots not contained in its kernel, we prove that their iterated…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Sungkyung Kang , JungHwan Park