Ribbon concordance of knots is a partial order
Abstract
In this note we show that ribbon concordance forms a partial ordering on the set of knots, answering a question of Gordon. The proof makes use of representation varieties of the knot groups to SO(N) and relations between them induced by a ribbon concordance.
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