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Independence of Iterated Whitehead Doubles

Geometric Topology 2017-12-18 v1

Abstract

A theorem of Furuta and Fintushel-Stern provides a criterion for a collection of Seifert fibred homology spheres to be independent in the homology cobordism group of oriented homology 3-spheres. In this article we use these results and some 4-dimensional constructions to produce infinite families of positive torus knots whose iterated Whitehead doubles are independent in the smooth concordance group.

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@article{arxiv.1712.05426,
  title  = {Independence of Iterated Whitehead Doubles},
  author = {Juanita Pinzón-Caicedo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.05426},
  year   = {2017}
}
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