## Algebraic & Geometric Topology

### Infection by string links and new structure in the knot concordance group

John R Burke

#### Abstract

This paper highlights the importance of string link concordance in the understanding of knot concordance in general. The results of this paper show that there are infinitely many nontrivial knots in the groups $Gn$ of $n$–solvable knots modulo $n.5$–solvable knots, for $n$ greater than or equal to $2$, which are not concordant to any knot that is obtained by two or more iterated infections of an Arf invariant zero knot by knots. This latter class accounts for nearly all previously known examples of knots in $Gn$, $n$ greater than or equal to $2$.

In this paper we will generalize the concept of when a rational Laurent polynomial is strongly coprime to another, first introduced by Cochran, Harvey and Leidy, to include multivariable polynomials. We also prove the existence of multivariable polynomials which are strongly coprime to all single variable Laurent polynomials. From this definition of coprimality we define the derived series localized at $ℳ$ for a given sequence of multivariable polynomials $ℳ$. From such series we obtain refinements of the $n$–solvable filtration. The operation of infection by a string link is then used to demonstrate that for particular $ℳ$, certain quotients of successive terms of these refined filtrations have infinite rank.

#### Article information

Source
Algebr. Geom. Topol., Volume 14, Number 3 (2014), 1577-1626.

Dates
Received: 9 August 2011
Revised: 15 August 2013
Accepted: 20 August 2013
First available in Project Euclid: 19 December 2017

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.agt/1513715914

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2140/agt.2014.14.1577

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3212578

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1295.57005

Keywords
infection string link concordance

#### Citation

Burke, John R. Infection by string links and new structure in the knot concordance group. Algebr. Geom. Topol. 14 (2014), no. 3, 1577--1626. doi:10.2140/agt.2014.14.1577. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.agt/1513715914

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