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Splitting the concordance group of algebraically slice knots

Charles Livingston

Geometry & Topology 7 (2003) 641–643

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2003.7.641

Abstract

As a corollary of work of Ozsváth and Szabó, it is shown that the classical concordance group of algebraically slice knots has an infinite cyclic summand and in particular is not a divisible group.

Keywords

Knot concordance, algebraically slice

Mathematical Subject Classification

Primary: 57M25

Secondary: 57Q60

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Publication

Received: 1 June 2003
Accepted: 21 September 2003
Published: 22 October 2003
Proposed: Robion Kirby
Seconded: Tomasz Mrowka, Cameron Gordon

Authors
Charles Livingston
Department of Mathematics
Indiana University
Bloomington
Indiana 47405
USA