Infinite Family of Non-concordant Knots Having the Same Seifert Form
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By a recent result of Livingston, it is known that if a knot has a prime power branched cyclic cover that is not a homology sphere, then there is an infinite family of nonconcordant knots having the same Seifert form as the knot. In this paper, we extend this result to the full extent. We show that if the knot has nontrivial Alexander polynomial, then there exists an infinite family of non-concordant knots having the same Seifert form as the knot. As a corollary, no nontrivial Alexander polynomial determines a unique knot concordance class. We use Cochran-Orr-Teichner’s recent result on the knot concordance group and Cheeger-Gromov’s von Neumann rho invariants with their universal bound for a 3-manifold.
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Seifert forms and concordance
If a knot K has Seifert matrix VK and has a prime power cyclic branched cover that is not a homology sphere, then there is an infinite family of non–concordant knots having Seifert matrix VK . AMS Classification numbers Primary: 57M25 Secondary: 57N70
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