Links not concordant to boundary links

Livingston, Charles

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1990-1031670-9

Links not concordant to boundary links
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Abstract:

Casson-Gordon invariants are used to prove that certain links in ${S^3}$ are not concordant to boundary links. These examples were first described by Cochran and Orr.

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