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Every genus one algebraically slice knot is 1-solvable

Geometric Topology 2018-08-28 v2

Abstract

Cochran, Orr, and Teichner developed a filtration of the knot concordance group indexed by half integers called the solvable filtration. Its terms are denoted by Fn\mathcal{F}_n. It has been shown that Fn/Fn.5\mathcal{F}_n/\mathcal{F}_{n.5} is a very large group for n0n\ge 0. For a generalization to the setting of links the third author showed that Fn.5/Fn+1\mathcal{F}_{n.5}/\mathcal{F}_{n+1} is non-trivial. In this paper we provide evidence that for knots F0.5=F1\mathcal{F}_{0.5}=\mathcal{F}_1. In particular we prove that every genus 1 algebraically slice knot is 1-solvable.

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@article{arxiv.1606.00479,
  title  = {Every genus one algebraically slice knot is 1-solvable},
  author = {Christopher W. Davis and Taylor E. Martin and Carolyn Otto and JungHwan Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.00479},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

19 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

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