Seifert forms and concordance

If a knot $K$ has Seifert matrix $V_{K}$ 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 $V_{K}$ .

Keywords

concordance, Seifert matrix, Alexander polynomial

Mathematical Subject Classification 2000

Primary: 57M25

Secondary: 57N70

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Publication

Received: 21 August 2001

Revised: 21 April 2002

Accepted: 22 August 2002

Published: 5 September 2002

Proposed: Cameron Gordon

Seconded: Ronald Stern, Walter Neumann

Authors

Charles Livingston
Department of Mathematics Indiana University Bloomington Indiana 47405 USA

Volume 6, issue 1 (2002)

Charles Livingston