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Prime-power characters admit a multiple bounding bordism
Statement
Assume AC. Let be a smooth oriented knot, let be a prime power, and let have prime-power order . Under the standard splitting , the character extends to by identifying its cyclic image with and using the free-summand projection in the second factor. Some positive multiple of bounds a compact oriented -manifold with an extending map to .
Statement references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, the smooth oriented knot, its prime-power cover and character, and the marked splitting in the Statement.
The actual integral splitting is , with free coordinate one on the closed lift of . Homology splitting for the cyclic cover of zero surgery
The geometric smooth third bordism group of the specified is finite. Its proof supplies the full prime-power calculation. The relevant third oriented bordism group is finite
A zero geometric bordism class means an actual compact smooth oriented filling with its extending map; disjoint union is the group operation. Oriented bordism groups of maps to a space, Oriented bordism classes over a space form an abelian group Finite smooth CW presentations exist under AC. Finite smooth triangulation of compact corners, relative to admissible boundary data
Full AC is the convention of this item. The Axiom of Choice
Proof
On [F1]'s branched-cover summand send a class to its character value, identifying its cyclic image with ; send to zero in that factor. In the other factor use the integral free projection. This is the stated homomorphism on actual integral homology and hence on the fundamental group. It is represented by a continuous map to the specified : on a finite CW presentation send each one-cell to a loop with the assigned group image, fill each two-cell because its relation has trivial image, and extend over higher cells because the target's higher homotopy groups vanish. The extensions agree on cell boundaries; their finite pasting is continuous. AC permits these finite choices, and changing them alters the map only within its homotopy class by the same cell-by-cell argument.
Its geometric class belongs to [F2]'s finite group. Some positive integer kills that element (indeed the explicit calculation permits ). By [F3], zero means that the disjoint union of those actual marked copies bounds a compact smooth oriented four-manifold with a map to restricting to their maps. This is exactly the required bordism datum, with the positive orientations and both prescribed character coordinates unchanged.
Depends on
- Finite smooth triangulation of compact corners, relative to admissible boundary data
- Cyclic cover of zero surgery on a knot
- Finite-order characters of a cyclic branched cover
- Torsion linking form and Casson–Gordon bordism data
- Homology splitting for the cyclic cover of zero surgery
- Oriented bordism groups of maps to a space
- Oriented bordism classes over a space form an abelian group
- The relevant third oriented bordism group is finite
- The Axiom of Choice
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Sources
- Charles Livingston and Swatee Naik, Introduction to Knot Concordance (standard reference, not scraped)
- A. J. Casson and C. McA. Gordon, Cobordism of Classical Knots (1986), with appendix by P. M. Gilmer (standard reference, not scraped)