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2004 Whitehead doubling persists
Stavros Garoufalidis
Algebr. Geom. Topol. 4(2): 935-942 (2004). DOI: 10.2140/agt.2004.4.935

Abstract

The operation of (untwisted) Whitehead doubling trivializes the Alexander module of a knot (and consequently, all known abelian invariants), and converts knots to topologically slice ones. In this note we show that Whitehead doubling does not trivialize the rational function that equals to the 2–loop part of the Kontsevich integral.

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Stavros Garoufalidis. "Whitehead doubling persists." Algebr. Geom. Topol. 4 (2) 935 - 942, 2004. https://doi.org/10.2140/agt.2004.4.935

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Received: 27 March 2001; Revised: 27 September 2004; Accepted: 28 September 2004; Published: 2004
First available in Project Euclid: 21 December 2017

zbMATH: 1082.57006
MathSciNet: MR2100686
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/agt.2004.4.935

Subjects:
Primary: 57N10
Secondary: 57M25

Keywords: claspers , clovers , Goussarov–Habiro , Kontsevich integral , loop filtration , Whitehead double

Rights: Copyright © 2004 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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