Mathematics – Geometric Topology
Scientific paper
2001-03-18
J. Knot Theory Ram. 14 (2005), no. 5, 603-626
Mathematics
Geometric Topology
20 pages, 5 figures. Compared with v1, section 3 (k-cobordism) is largely revised, section 2 (\omega-quasi-isotopy) is complet
Scientific paper
Geometric aspects of the filtration on classical links by k-quasi-isotopy are discussed, including the effect of Whitehead doubling, relations with Smythe's n-splitting and Kobayashi's k-contractibility. One observation is: \omega-quasi-isotopy is equivalent to PL isotopy for links in a homotopy 3-sphere (resp. contractible open 3-manifold) M if and only if M is homeomorphic to S^3 (resp. R^3). As a byproduct of the proof of the "if" part, we obtain that every compact subset of an acyclic open set in a compact orientable 3-manifold M is contained in a PL homology 3-ball in M. We show that k-quasi-isotopy implies (k+1)-cobordism of Cochran and Orr. If z^{m-1}(c_0 + c_1 z^2 + ... + c_n z^{2n}) denotes the Conway polynomial of an m-component link, it follows that the residue class of c_k modulo gcd(c_0,..,c_{k-1}) is invariant under k-quasi-isotopy. Another corollary is that each Cochran's derived invariant \beta^k is also invariant under k-quasi-isotopy, and therefore assumes the same value on all PL links, sufficiently C^0-close to a given topological link. This overcomes an algebraic obstacle encountered by Kojima and Yamasaki, who "became aware of impossibility to define" for wild links what for PL links is equivalent to the formal power series \sum \beta^n z^n by a change of variable.
Melikhov Sergey A.
Repovš Dušan
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