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An infinite-rank summand of knots with trivial Alexander polynomial

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Speaker: 
Kyungbae Park
Affiliation: 
Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 
Wed, 19/10/2016 - 12:30 - 13:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

The subgroup $\mathcal{T}$ of the smooth knot concordance group generated by topologically slice knots portrays the significant difference between the topological and smooth categories in 4--dimension. Last decade, some structural problems (such as splitting and divisibility) of $\mathcal{T}$ have been answered due to the development of homological invariants of knots. In this talk I will review some recent results related to this topic and show that there exists an infinite rank summand in the subgroup of $\mathcal{T}$ generated by knots with trivial Alexander polynomial. To this end we use the invariant Upsilon recently introduced by Ozsv\'{a}th, Stipsicz and Szab\'{o} using knot Floer homology. This is joint work with Min Hoon Kim.

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