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Knot reversal and rational concordance

Geometric Topology 2022-02-08 v1

Abstract

We give an infinite family of knots that are not rationally concordant to their reverses. More precisely, if R denotes the involution of the rational knot concordance group QC induced by string reversal and Fix(R) denotes the subgroup of knots fixed under R in QC, then QC/Fix(R) contains an infinite rank subgroup. As a corollary, we show that there exists a knot K such that for every pair of coprime integers p and q, the (p,q)-cable of K is not concordant to the reverse of the (p,q)-cable of K.

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@article{arxiv.2202.02496,
  title  = {Knot reversal and rational concordance},
  author = {Taehee Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.02496},
  year   = {2022}
}

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10 pages, 1 figure

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