{
  "id": "1009.5361",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2010-09-27T19:11:36.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-10-04T03:17:30.000Z",
  "title": "Instantons, concordance, and Whitehead doubling",
  "authors": [
    "Matthew Hedden",
    "Paul Kirk"
  ],
  "comment": "33 pages, 5 figures. Reference corrected",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT",
    "math.DG"
  ],
  "abstract": "We use moduli spaces of instantons and Chern-Simons invariants of flat connections to prove that the Whitehead doubles of (2,2^n-1) torus knots are independent in the smooth knot concordance group; that is, they freely generate a subgroup of infinite rank.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2010-10-04T03:17:30.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "57N70",
      "57M25",
      "57M27",
      "57R57",
      "57R90"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "whitehead doubling",
      "instantons",
      "smooth knot concordance group",
      "torus knots",
      "chern-simons invariants"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 33,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 871158,
      "adsabs": "2010arXiv1009.5361H"
    }
  }
}