Filtered Instantons and the Concordance of Satellites

Abstract

In \cite{NST23}, Nozaki-Sato-Taniguchi defined a family of invariants $ r_s $ for integer homology spheres with filtered instanton homology \cite{FS92}. Coupling these with techniques in classical knot theory, we produce some results in the knot concordance group, including criteria for a family of satellite knots to be linearly independent and the independence of what we call the Whitehead $ n $-ble $ P_n $.