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PATRICK ORSONWe develop a theory of chain complex double cobordism for chain complexes equipped with Poincaré duality. The resulting double cobordism groups are a refinement of the classical torsion algebraic L-groups for localisations of a ring with involution. The refinement is analogous to the difference between metabolic and hyperbolic linking forms.We apply the double L-groups in high-dimensional knot theory to define an invariant for doubly slice n-knots. We prove that the "stably doubly slice implies doubly slice" property holds (algebraically) for Blanchfield forms, Seifert forms and for the Blanchfield complexes of n-knots for n 1.57Q45; 57R67, 57Q60, 57R65