Strongly invertible knots, equivariant slice genera, and an equivariant algebraic concordance group

Miller, A. N. and Powell, M. (2023) Strongly invertible knots, equivariant slice genera, and an equivariant algebraic concordance group. Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 107(6), pp. 2025-2053. (doi: 10.1112/jlms.12732)

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Abstract

We use the Blanchfield form to obtain a lower bound on the equivariant slice genus of a strongly invertible knot. For our main application, let K be a genus one strongly invertible slice knot with nontrivial Alexander polynomial. We show that the equivariant slice genus of an equivariant connected sum #^n K is at least n/4. We also formulate an equivariant algebraic concordance group, and show that the kernel of the forgetful map to the classical algebraic concordance group is infinite rank.

Item Type:Articles
Additional Information:MP was partially supported by EPSRC New Investigator grant EP/T028335/1 and EPSRC New Horizons grant EP/V04821X/1.
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Powell, Professor Mark
Authors: Miller, A. N., and Powell, M.
Subjects:Q Science > QA Mathematics
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Mathematics and Statistics > Mathematics
Journal Name:Journal of the London Mathematical Society
Publisher:Wiley
ISSN:0024-6107
ISSN (Online):1469-7750
Published Online:05 March 2023
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2023 The Authors
First Published:First published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society 107(6):2025-2053
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons license
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