{ "id": "1712.05426", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-12-14T19:43:43.000Z", "updated": "2017-12-14T19:43:43.000Z", "title": "Independence of Iterated Whitehead Doubles", "authors": [ "Juanita Pinzón-Caicedo" ], "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "A theorem of Furuta and Fintushel-Stern provides a criterion for a collection of Seifert fibred homology spheres to be independent in the homology cobordism group of oriented homology 3-spheres. In this article we use these results and some 4-dimensional constructions to produce infinite families of positive torus knots whose iterated Whitehead doubles are independent in the smooth concordance group.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-12-14T19:43:43.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57M25", "57N70", "57Q60" ], "keywords": [ "iterated whitehead doubles", "independence", "seifert fibred homology spheres", "produce infinite families", "homology cobordism group" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }