Eta invariants as sliceness obstructions and their relation to Casson-Gordon invariants
Eta invariants as sliceness obstructions and their relation to Casson-Gordon invariants
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作为切片障碍的 Eta 不变量及其与 Casson-Gordon 不变量的关系
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2003
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Stefan Friedl
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Stefan Friedl
We give a useful classification of the metabelian unitary repre- sentations of π1(MK), where MK is the result of zero-surgery along a knot K ⊂ S 3 . We show that certain eta invariants associated to metabelian representations π1(MK) → U(k) vanish for slice knots and that even more eta invariants vanish for ribbon knots and doubly slice knots. We show that our vanishing results contain the Casson-Gordon sliceness obstruction. In many cases eta invariants can be easily computed for satellite knots. We use this to study the relation between the eta invariant sliceness obstruction, the eta-invariant ribbonness obstruction, and the L 2 -eta invariant sliceness obstruction recently introduced by Cochran, Orr and Teichner. In partic- ular we give an example of a knot which has zero eta invariant and zero metabelian L 2 -eta invariant sliceness obstruction but which is not ribbon. AMS Classification 57M25, 57M27; 57Q45, 57Q60