Links with non-trivial Alexander polynomial which are topologically concordant to the Hopf link

Kim, Min Hoon; Krcatovich, David; Park, JungHwan

doi:10.1090/tran/7389

Links with non-trivial Alexander polynomial which are topologically concordant to the Hopf link
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Abstract:

We give infinitely many 2-component links with unknotted components which are topologically concordant to the Hopf link, but not smoothly concordant to any 2-component link with trivial Alexander polynomial. Our examples are pairwise non-concordant.

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