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Anthony Conway
A criterion for double sliceness
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Published: |
August 2, 2024. |
Keywords: |
Doubly slice knot, noncommutative Alexander module, satellite knot, ribbon disc. |
Subject [2020]: |
57K10, 57N70. |
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Abstract
We describe a condition involving noncommutative Alexander modules which ensures that a knot with a certain given Alexander module is topologically doubly slice.
As an application, we obtain a sufficient condition for a satellite knot
Rη(K) to be doubly slice.
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Acknowledgements
This research was partially supported by the NSF grant DMS 2303674. Thanks go to Mark Powell for comments on a draft of this paper and to Lisa Piccirillo for heplful discussions. Finally, I am grateful to an anonymous referee for helpful comments and in particular for a suggestion that streamlined the
proof of Theorem 3.8.
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Author information
Anthony Conway
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712, USA
anthony.conway@austin.utexas.edu
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