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New examples of non-slice, algebraically slice knots
Author(s):
Charles
Livingston
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
130
(2002),
1551-1555.
MSC (1991):
Primary 57M25, 57N70, 57Q60
Posted:
October 12, 2001
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For , if the Seifert form of a knotted -sphere in has a metabolizer, then the knot is slice. Casson and Gordon proved that this is false in dimension three. However, in the three-dimensional case it is true that if the metabolizer has a basis represented by a strongly slice link, then is slice. The question has been asked as to whether it is sufficient that each basis element is represented by a slice knot to assure that is slice. For genus one knots this is of course true; here we present genus two counterexamples.
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Additional Information:
Charles
Livingston
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
Email:
livingst@indiana.edu
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06201-3
PII:
S 0002-9939(01)06201-3
Keywords:
Knot concordance,
algebraically slice
Received by editor(s):
August 10, 2000
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
November 10, 2000
Posted:
October 12, 2001
Communicated by:
Ronald A. Fintushel
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