Homotopy ribbon concordance and Alexander polynomials

2019/07/21 by Friedl, Stefan, Powell, Mark
#57M25 #57M27 #57N70 #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.09031

Abstract

We show that if a link J in the 3-sphere is homotopy ribbon concordant to a link L then the Alexander polynomial of L divides the Alexander polynomial of J.

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