English

Non-slice linear combinations of iterated torus knots

Geometric Topology 2023-05-17 v3

Abstract

In 1976, Rudolph asked whether algebraic knots are linearly independent in the knot concordance group. This paper uses twisted Blanchfield pairings to answer this question in the affirmative for new large families of algebraic knots.

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@article{arxiv.1910.01368,
  title  = {Non-slice linear combinations of iterated torus knots},
  author = {Anthony Conway and Min Hoon Kim and Wojciech Politarczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.01368},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

24 pages, 3 figures. v2: Theorem 1.1 is now substantially strengthened and its proof is simplified. v3: minor changes in the introduction

R2 v1 2026-06-23T11:33:31.892Z