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Von Neumann rho invariants and torsion in the topological knot concordance group
Davis, Christopher William1
1Department of Mathematics, Rice University, 6100 Main St, Houston TX 77005, USA
Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Tome 12 (2012) no. 2, pp. 753-789
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We discuss an infinite class of metabelian Von Neumann ρ–invariants. Each one is a homomorphism from the monoid of knots to ℝ. In general they are not well defined on the concordance group. Nonetheless, we show that they pass to well defined homomorphisms from the subgroup of the concordance group generated by anisotropic knots. Thus, the computation of even one of these invariants can be used to conclude that a knot is of infinite order. We introduce a method to give a computable bound on these ρ–invariants. Finally we compute this bound to get a new and explicit infinite set of twist knots which is linearly independent in the concordance group and whose every member is of algebraic order 2.

DOI : 10.2140/agt.2012.12.753
Classification : 57M25, 57M27, 57N70
Keywords: knot concordance, rho-invariants

Davis, Christopher William  1

1 Department of Mathematics, Rice University, 6100 Main St, Houston TX 77005, USA 
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Davis, Christopher William. Von Neumann rho invariants and torsion in the topological knot concordance group. Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Tome 12 (2012) no. 2, pp. 753-789. doi: 10.2140/agt.2012.12.753

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