On 3-braid knots of finite concordance order

2015/04/13 by Lisca, Paolo
#57M25 #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1504.03129

Abstract

We study 3-braid knots of finite smooth concordance order. A corollary of our main result is that a chiral 3-braid knot of finite concordance order is ribbon.

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