On 3–braid knots of finite concordance order
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Abstract:
We study 3–braid knots of finite smooth concordance order. A corollary of our main result is that a chiral 3–braid knot of finite concordance order is ribbon.References
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Additional Information
- Paolo Lisca
- Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 5, Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
- Email: paolo.lisca@unipi.it
- Received by editor(s): April 21, 2015
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 26, 2015, and December 15, 2015
- Published electronically: February 13, 2017
- Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by the PRIN–MIUR research project 2010–2011 “Varietà reali e complesse: geometria, topologia e analisi armonica”.
- © Copyright 2017 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 369 (2017), 5087-5112
- MSC (2010): Primary 57M25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/6888
- MathSciNet review: 3632561