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Link concordance, boundary link concordance and eta-invariants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2005

STEFAN FRIEDL
Affiliation:
Rice University, Houston, TX 77251, USA. e-mail: friedl@rice.edu

Abstract

We study eta-invariants of links and show that in many cases they form link concordance invariants, in particular that many eta-invariants vanish for slice links. This result contains and generalizes previous invariants by Smolinsky and Cha–Ko. We give a formula for the eta-invariant for boundary links. In several interesting cases this allows us to show that a given link is not slice. We show that even more eta-invariants have to vanish for boundary slice links.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2005 Cambridge Philosophical Society

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