paper

Homotopy ribbon concordance and Alexander polynomials

arXiv:1907.09031

Abstract

We show that if a link J in the 3-sphere is homotopy ribbon concordant to a link L then the Alexander polynomial of L divides the Alexander polynomial of J.

7 pages. Version 2 extends the result to Alexander polynomials of links. Version 3 incorporates referee's comments, to appear in Archiv der Mathematik