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New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 30 (2024), 1079-1099

  

Anthony Conway

A criterion for double sliceness

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Published: August 2, 2024.
Keywords: Doubly slice knot, noncommutative Alexander module, satellite knot, ribbon disc.
Subject [2020]: 57K10, 57N70.

Abstract
We describe a condition involving noncommutative Alexander modules which ensures that a knot with a certain given Alexander module is topologically doubly slice. As an application, we obtain a sufficient condition for a satellite knot Rη(K) to be doubly slice.

Acknowledgements

This research was partially supported by the NSF grant DMS 2303674. Thanks go to Mark Powell for comments on a draft of this paper and to Lisa Piccirillo for heplful discussions. Finally, I am grateful to an anonymous referee for helpful comments and in particular for a suggestion that streamlined the proof of Theorem 3.8.


Author information

Anthony Conway
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712, USA

anthony.conway@austin.utexas.edu