Amenable L2-theoretic methods and knot concordance

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2010-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/1010.1058v2

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Geometric Topology

25 pages, 1 figure. Typos fixed, references updated

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We introduce new obstructions to topological knot concordance. These are obtained from amenable groups in Strebel's class, possibly with torsion, using a recently suggested $L^2$-theoretic method due to Orr and the author. Concerning $(h)$-solvable knots which are defined in terms of certain Whitney towers of height $h$ in bounding 4-manifolds, we use the obstructions to reveal new structure in the knot concordance group not detected by prior known invariants: for any $n>1$ there are $(n)$-solvable knots which are not $(n.5)$-solvable (and therefore not slice) but have vanishing Cochran-Orr-Teichner $L^2$-signature obstructions as well as Levine algebraic obstructions and Casson-Gordon invariants.

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