James F. Davis, Swatee Naik
This paper gives an algebraic characterization of Alexander polynomials of equivariant ribbon knots and a factorization condition satisfied by Alexander polynomials of equivariant slice knots.
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We show that if a link J in the 3-sphere is homotopy ribbon concordant to a link L then the Alexander polynomial of L divides the Alexander polynomial of J.
Alexander polynomials of ribbon knots and virtual knots
本文研究了结带结和虚拟结的亚历山大多项式，通过结带的内在奇异性信息确定了结带结的亚历山大多项式，并给出了计算公式，同时定义了半亚历山大多项式并给出了其简化公式。
We establish homotopy ribbon concordance obstructions coming from the Blanchfield form and Levine-Tristram signatures. Then, as an application of twisted Alexander polynomials, we show that for every knot K with nontrivial Alexander polynomial, there exists an infinite family of knots that are all concordant to K and have the same Blanchfield form as K, such that no pair of knots in that family is homotopy ribbon concordant.
Ribbon tangles are proper embeddings of tori and cylinders in the $4$-ball~$B^4$, "bounding" $3$-manifolds with only ribbon disks as singularities. We construct an Alexander invariant $\mathsf{A}$ of ribbon tangles equipped with a representation of the fundamental group of their exterior in a free abelian group $G$. This invariant induces a functor in a certain category $\mathsf{R}ib_G$ of tangles, which restricts to the exterior powers of Burau-Gassner representation for ribbon braids, that are analogous to usual braids in this context. We define a circuit algebra $\mathsf{C}ob_G$ over the op…
For knots in $S^3$, it is well-known that the Alexander polynomial of a ribbon knot factorizes as $f(t)f(t^{-1})$ for some polynomial $f(t)$. By contrast, the Alexander polynomial of a ribbon $2$-knot is not even symmetric in general. Via an alternative notion of ribbon $2$-knots, we give a topological condition on a $2$-knot that implies the factorization of the Alexander polynomial.
Alexander polynomials of simple-ribbon knots
本文给出了简单-带状纽结的亚历山大多项式公式，并利用该公式判定10交叉纽结是否为简单-带状纽结，同时提供了简单-带状纽结同时为m-和n-简单-带状纽结的条件。
Twisted Alexander Polynomials, Ribbon Homology Cobordisms, and the Thurston Norm
本文利用扭转亚历山大多项式证明，若存在从Y_-到Y_+的绳索同调柄结构且Y_-不可约，则Y_-的图松规范单位球包含Y_+的。同时证明Y_+的纤维类对应于Y_-的。
Smoothly slice knots with Alexander polynomial 1 and high unknotting number
本文证明存在一个同时具有光滑双切片性、双向手性、Alexander多项式为1且解结数为5的纽结，揭示了这些拓扑性质可以共存。
We use the famous knot-theoretic consequence of Freedman's disc theorem---knots with trivial Alexander polynomial bound a locally-flat disc in the 4-ball---to prove the following generalization. The degree of the Alexander polynomial of a knot is an upper bound for twice its topological slice genus. We provide examples of knots where this determines the topological slice genus.
We establish the slice-ribbon conjecture for a large family of Montesinos' knots by means of Donaldson's theorem on the intersection forms of definite 4-manifolds.
Let C_T be the subgroup of the smooth knot concordance group generated by topologically slice knots and let C_D be the subgroup generated by knots with trivial Alexander polynomial. We prove the quotient C_T/C_D is infinitely generated, and uncover similar structure in the 3-dimensional rational spin bordism group. Our methods also lead to the construction of links that are topologically, but not smoothly, concordant to boundary links.
Akbulut and Kirby conjectured that two knots with the same $0$-surgery are concordant. In this paper, we prove that if the slice-ribbon conjecture is true, then the modified Akbulut-Kirby's conjecture is false. We also give a fibered potential counterexample to the slice-ribbon conjecture.
We determine the smooth concordance order of the 3-stranded pretzel knots P(p,q,r) with p,q,r odd. We show that each one of finite order is, in fact, ribbon, thereby proving the slice-ribbon conjecture for this family of knots. As corollaries we give new proofs of results first obtained by Fintushel-Stern and Casson-Gordon.
Ribbon numbers of 12-crossing knots
本文研究纽结的带状数，通过Alexander多项式集合计算12交叉纽结的带状数，并发现该方法对高亏格情形不再有效。
A pretzel knot $K$ is called $odd$ if all its twist parameters are odd, and $mutant$ $ribbon$ if it is mutant to a simple ribbon knot. We prove that the family of odd, 5-stranded pretzel knots satisfies a weaker version of the Slice-Ribbon Conjecture: All slice, odd, 5-stranded pretzel knots are $mutant$ $ribbon$. We do this in stages by first showing that 5-stranded pretzel knots having twist parameters with all the same sign or with exactly one parameter of a different sign have infinite order in the topological knot concordance group, and thus in the smooth knot concordance group as well. N…
We define an obstruction for a knot to be Z[Z]-homology ribbon, and use this to provide restrictions on the integers that can occur as the triple linking numbers of derivative links of knots that are either homotopy ribbon or doubly slice. Our main application finds new non-doubly slice knots. In particular this gives new information on the doubly solvable filtration of Taehee Kim: doubly algebraically slice ribbon knots need not be doubly (1)-solvable, and doubly algebraically slice knots need not be (0.5,1)-solvable. We also discuss potential connections to unsolved conjectures in knot conco…
Pretzel links, mutation, and the slice-ribbon conjecture
本文利用3重分支覆盖和Donaldson对角化定理证明2分量pretzel link P(p,q,-p,-q)不是slice的，并由此证明了4股2分量pretzel links的slice-ribbon猜想。
The twisting number of a ribbon knot is bounded below by its doubly slice genus
该研究证明带状纽结的扭转数以双重切片亏格为下界，构造出扭转数任意高的带状纽结解决Tanaka的问题，并确定了部分12交叉纽结的未知双重切片亏格。
We give a necessary, and in some cases sufficient, condition for sliceness inside the family of pretzel knots $P (p_1,...,p_n)$ with one $p_i$ even. The three stranded case yields two interesting families of examples: the first consists of knots for which the non-sliceness is detected by the Alexander polynomial while several modern obstructions to sliceness vanish. The second family has the property that the correction terms from Heegaard-Floer homology of the double branched covers of these knots do not obstruct the existence of a rational homology ball; however, the Casson-Gordon invariants…
Explicit Formulas for the Alexander Polynomial of Pretzel Knots
本文给出了 pretzel 结绳的 Alexander 多项式显式公式，并推导出若干结论，包括 trivial Alexander 多项式的 pretzel 结绳特征。应用此结果，构造了一类拓扑上可割但不光滑可割的结。
We use the Bar-Natan Zh-correspondence to identify the generalized Alexander polynomial of a virtual knot with the Alexander polynomial of a two component welded link. We show that the Zh-map is functorial under concordance, and also that Satoh's Tube map (from welded links to ribbon knotted tori in $S^4$) is functorial under concordance. In addition, we extend classical results of Chen, Milnor, and Hillman on the lower central series of link groups to links in thickened surfaces. Our main result is that the generalized Alexander polynomial vanishes on any knot in a thickened surface which is …
We study the relationship between fibered ribbon 1-knots and fibered ribbon 2-knots by studying fibered slice disks with handlebody fibers. We give a characterization of fibered homotopy-ribbon disks and give analogues of the Stallings twist for fibered disks and 2-knots. As an application, we produce infinite families of distinct homotopy-ribbon disks with homotopy equivalent exteriors, with potential relevance to the Slice-Ribbon Conjecture. We show that any fibered ribbon 2-knot can be obtained by doubling infinitely many different slice disks (sometimes in different contractible 4-manifold…
In the early 1980's Mike Freedman showed that all knots with trivial Alexander polynomial are topologically slice (with fundamental group Z). This paper contains the first new examples of topologically slice knots. In fact, we give a sufficient homological condition under which a knot is slice with fundamental group Z semi-direct product Z[1/2]. These two fundamental groups are known to be the only solvable ribbon groups. Our homological condition implies that the Alexander polynomial equals (t-2)(t^{-1}-2) but also contains information about the metabelian cover of the knot complement (since …
We construct an infinite family of slice disks with the same exterior, which gives an affirmative answer to an old question asked by Hitt and Sumners in 1981. Furthermore, we prove that these slice disks are ribbon disks.
We show that any strongly negative amphichiral knot with a trivial Alexander polynomial is equivariantly topologically slice.
If there are any 2-component counterexamples to the Generalized Property R Conjecture, a least genus component of all such counterexamples cannot be a fibered knot. Furthermore, the monodromy of a fibered component of any such counterexample has unexpected restrictions. The simplest plausible counterexample to the Generalized Property R Conjecture could be a 2-component link containing the square knot. We characterize all two-component links that contain the square knot and which surger to (S^1 x S^2) # (S^1 x S^2). We exhibit a family of such links that are probably counterexamples to General…
We describe an algorithm to find ribbon disks for alternating knots, and the results of a computer implementation of this algorithm. The algorithm is underlain by a slice link obstruction coming from Donaldson's diagonalisation theorem. It successfully finds ribbon disks for slice two-bridge knots and for the connected sum of any alternating knot with its reverse mirror, as well as for 662,903 prime alternating knots of 21 or fewer crossings. We also identify some examples of ribbon alternating knots for which the algorithm fails to find ribbon disks, though a related search identifies all suc…
We give a complete characterization of the topological slice status of odd 3-strand pretzel knots, proving that an odd 3-strand pretzel knot is topologically slice if and only if either it is ribbon or has trivial Alexander polynomial. (By work of [FS85], a nontrivial odd 3-strand pretzel knot $K$ cannot both be ribbon and have $Δ_K(t)=1$.) We also show that topologically slice even 3-strand pretzel knots (except perhaps for members of Lecuona's exceptional family of [Lec13]) must be ribbon. These results follow from computations of the Casson-Gordon 3-manifold signature invariants associated …
As an extension of Reshetikhin and Turaev's invariant, Costantino, Geer and Patureau-Mirand constructed $3$-manifold invariants in the setting of relative $G$-modular categories, which include both semisimple and non-semisimple ribbon tensor categories as examples. In this paper, we follow their method to construct a $3$-manifold invariant from Viro's $\mathfrak{gl}(1\vert 1)$-Alexander polynomial. We take lens spaces $L(7, 1)$ and $L(7, 2)$ as examples to show that this invariant can distinguish homotopy equivalent manifolds.
There is a higher dimensional analogue of the perturbative Chern-Simons theory in the sense that a similar perturbative series as in 3-dimension, which is computed via configuration space integral, yields an invariant of higher dimensional knots (Bott-Cattaneo-Rossi invariant), which is constructed by Bott for degree 2 and by Cattaneo-Rossi for higher degrees. However, its feature is yet unknown. In this paper we restrict the study to long ribbon n-knots and characterize the Bott-Cattaneo-Rossi invariant as a finite type invariant of long ribbon n-knots in [HKS]. As a consequence, we obtain a …
Ribbon concordances and slice obstructions: experiments and examples
该研究通过大规模计算确定了大量结的切片性，发现约0.46%的结是平滑切片，而99.54%的结并非拓扑切片，并引入了新的方法和数据，揭示了切片性问题的现状和未解之处。
A closer look at an example introduced by Livingston & Melvin and later studied by Miyazaki shows that a plumbing of two fibered ribbon knots (along their fiber surfaces) may be algebraically slice yet not ribbon.
Characterisation of homotopy ribbon discs
该研究针对基本群为无限循环群或Baumslag-Solitar群的切片纽结，分类了其Γ-同伦纽结切片盘的拓扑环境合痕等价类，给出了不同群下等价类的数量限制。
A criterion for double sliceness
本文提出一个基于非交换Alexander模的判据，确保特定Alexander模的纽结为拓扑双切片，并应用于卫星纽结，给出其双切片性的充分条件。
We give a useful classification of the metabelian unitary representations of pi_1(M_K), where M_K is the result of zero-surgery along a knot K in S^3. We show that certain eta invariants associated to metabelian representations pi_1(M_K) --> U(k) vanish for slice knots and that even more eta invariants vanish for ribbon knots and doubly slice knots. We show that our vanishing results contain the Casson-Gordon sliceness obstruction. In many cases eta invariants can be easily computed for satellite knots. We use this to study the relation between the eta invariant sliceness obstruction, the eta-…
A knot in the three-sphere is doubly slice if it is the cross-section of an unknotted two-sphere in the four-sphere. For low-crossing knots, the most complete work to date gives a classification of doubly slice knots through 9 crossings. We extend that work through 12 crossings, resolving all but four cases among the 2,977 prime knots in that range. The techniques involved in this analysis include considerations of the Alexander module and signature functions as well as calculations of the twisted Alexander polynomials for higher-order branched covers. We give explicit illustrations of the dou…
We give a new construction of slice knots via annulus twists. The simplest slice knots obtained by our method are those constructed by Omae. In this paper, we introduce a sufficient condition for given slice knots to be ribbon, and prove that all Omae's knots are ribbon.
The stable Kauffman conjecture posits that a knot in $S^3$ is slice if and only if it admits a slice derivative. We prove a related statement: A knot is handle-ribbon (also called strongly homotopy-ribbon) in a homotopy 4-ball $B$ if and only if it admits an R-link derivative; i.e. an $n$-component derivative $L$ with the property that zero-framed surgery on $L$ yields $\#^n(S^1\times S^2)$. We also show that $K$ bounds a handle-ribbon disk $D \subset B$ if and only if the 3-manifold obtained by zero-surgery on $K$ admits a singular fibration that extends over handlebodies in $B \setminus D$, …
Given a knot complement X and its p-fold cyclic cover X_p, we identify twisted polynomials associated to 1-dimensional linear representations of the fundamental group of X_p with twisted polynomials associated to related p-dimensional linear representations of the fundamental group of X. This provides a simpler and faster algorithm to compute these twisted polynomials, allowing us to prove that 16 (of 18 previously unknown) algebraically slice knots of 12 or fewer crossings are not slice. We also use this improved algorithm to prove that the 24 mutants of the pretzel knot P(3,7,9,11,15), corre…
We use twisted Alexander polynomials to show that certain algebraically slice 2-bridge knots are not topologically slice, even though all prime power Casson-Gordon signatures vanish. We also provide some computations indicating the efficacy of Casson-Gordon signatures in obstructing the smooth sliceness of 2-bridge knots.
Let {T_n} be the bipolar filtration of the smooth concordance group of topologically slice knots, which was introduced by Cochran, Harvey, and Horn. It is known that for each n not equal to 1 the quotient group T_n/T_{n+1} has infinite rank and T_1/T_2 has positive rank. In this paper, we show that T_1/T_2 also has infinite rank. Moreover, we prove that there exist infinitely many Alexander polynomials p(t) such that there exist infinitely many knots in T_1 with Alexander polynomial p(t) whose nontrivial linear combinations are not concordant to any knot with Alexander polynomial coprime to p(…
Fox-Milnor condition for concordant knots in homology 3-spheres
本文证明定向同调3-球中切片型纽结的Alexander多项式满足Fox-Milnor条件，建立了该类空间中合痕纽结的Alexander多项式关系。
Slice genus, $T$-genus and $4$-dimensional clasp number
本文推广了切片结的$T$-亏格刻画，为切片亏格提供了$3$维刻画，证明$T$-亏格控制$4$维正交叉数，引入带状$T$-亏格并探讨其与切片结、带状结及着色链环的关联。
On knots that divide ribbon knotted surfaces
本文研究了半带状结的 genus 和半融合数，计算了多个结的半带状 genus 并探讨了其与双可切 genus 的关系。
We show that if the connected sum of two knots with coprime Alexander polynomials is doubly slice, then the Ozsváth-Szabó correction terms as smooth double sliceness obstructions vanish for both knots. Recently, Jeffrey Meier gave smoothly slice knots that are topologically doubly slice, but not smoothly doubly slice. As an application, we give a new example of such knots that is distinct from Meier's knots modulo doubly slice knots.
Symmetric ribbon numbers of low-complexity knots
本文系统研究了最多12个交叉点的纽结的对称带数，通过纽结行列式、Alexander多项式、Jones多项式和Kauffman多项式给出了新的下界。
We apply Donaldson's theorem on the intersection forms of definite 4--manifolds to characterize the lens spaces which smoothly bound rational homology 4--dimensional balls. Our result implies, in particular, that every smoothly slice 2--bridge knot is ribbon, proving the ribbon conjecture for 2--bridge knots.
Extended Alexander groups are used to define an invariant for open virtual strings. Examples of non-commuting open strings and a ribbon-concordance obstruction are given. An example is given of a slice virtual open string that is not ribbon. Definitions are extended to open n-strings.
Let K and K' be 2-knots. Suppose that K and K' are ribbon-move equivalent. Then the Farber-Levine pairing for K is equivalent to that for K' and the (Z-)torsion part of the first Alexander module of $K$ is isomorphic to that of K' as Z[Z] modules. Let K be a 2-knot which is ribbon-move equivalent to the trivial knot. Then the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer-Casson-Gordon-Ruberman Q/Z-valued \widetildeη-invariants of K for Z_d is zero. (d is a natural number. d>2.).
Exceptional pretzel knots are not algebraically slice
本文证明Lecuona例外族pretzel纽结的Alexander多项式不满足Fox-Milnor条件，从而完成三股pretzel纽结的可切性分类，并移除相关分类中的非例外假设。
We give an example of a 3-component smoothly slice boundary link, each of whose components has a genus one Seifert surface, such that any metaboliser of the boundary link Seifert form is represented by 3 curves on the Seifert surfaces that form a link with nonvanishing Milnor triple linking number. We also give a generalisation to m-component links and higher Milnor invariants. We prove that our examples are ribbon and that all ribbon links are boundary slice.
A Dunfield--Gong 4-Sphere is Standard
本文标准化了Dunfield和Gong构造的同伦4维球面，并证明了一个未知为带状的18交叉结在标准4维球中是可切的，从而可能成为切-带猜想的反例。
For all n > 0 there is a homomorphism from the smooth concordance group of knots in dimension 2n + 1 to an algebraically defined group called the rational algebraic concordance group. This algebraic concordance group splits as a direct sum of groups indexed by polynomials. For n > 1 the homomorphism is injective. This leads to what is called a primary decomposition theorem for knot concordance. In the classical dimension, the kernel of this homomorphism includes the smooth concordance group of topologically slice knots, and Jae Choon Cha has begun studying possible primary decompositions of th…
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.
On slice alternating 3-braid closures
本文构造了交错3辫闭包的带状曲面，并利用扭曲Alexander多项式完成了交叉数不超过20的光滑切片纽结分类。
Unknotting number, ribbon concordance, and singular instantons
利用等变奇异瞬子弗洛尔理论，研究通过带状协边得到的切片纽结的解结操作，发现同号解结序列需含两种符号，还给出三维流形类似情况，为德恩手术数单调性提供证据。
Positive Knots and Ribbon Concordance
本文证明正纽结在带子配边偏序中是最小元且不能表示为非平凡带和，推广了特殊交错纽结的相关定理，并证明配边正纽结在特定条件下具有同构的有理Alexander模，支持每个配边类至多含一个正纽结的猜想。
Greene-Jabuka and Lecuona confirmed the slice-ribbon conjecture for 3-stranded pretzel knots except for an infinite family $P(a,-a-2,-\frac{(a+1)^2}{2})$ where $a$ is an odd integer greater than $1$. Lecuona and Miller showed that $P(a,-a-2,-\frac{(a+1)^2}{2})$ are not slice unless $a\equiv 1, 11, 37, 47, 59 \pmod{60}$. In this note, we show that four-fifths of the remaining knots in the family are not slice.
Slice disks modulo local knotting
本文肯定回答了切片圆盘在局部打结模意义下是否可无穷多且两两不同痕的问题，并借助基本群核、广义方纽结分类及卫星运算构造出纤维化双曲纽结的无穷多互不等价切片圆盘。
Slice depth of 2-knots
本文提出2-纽结的切片深度概念，并针对若干特定经典纽结类别的n-扭转自旋给出切片深度上界。
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