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Topologically and rationally slice knots

Geometric Topology 2023-04-14 v1

Abstract

A knot in S3S^3 is topologically slice if it bounds a locally flat disk in B4B^4. A knot in S3S^3 is rationally slice if it bounds a smooth disk in a rational homology ball. We prove that the smooth concordance group of topologically and rationally slice knots admits a Z\mathbb{Z}^\infty subgroup. All previously known examples of knots that are both topologically and rationally slice were of order two. As a direct consequence, it follows that there are infinitely many topologically slice knots that are strongly rationally slice but not slice.

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@article{arxiv.2304.06265,
  title  = {Topologically and rationally slice knots},
  author = {Jennifer Hom and Sungkyung Kang and JungHwan Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06265},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

11 pages, no figures, comments welcome

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