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All frame-spun knots are slice

Author(s): Greg Friedman
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 3103-3109.
MSC (2000): Primary 57Q45
Posted: May 12, 2004
MathSciNet review: 2063133
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Abstract: Frame-spun knots are constructed by spinning a knot of lower dimension about a framed submanifold of $S^n$. We show that all frame-spun knots are slice (null-cobordant).


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Additional Information:

Greg Friedman
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Yale University, 10 Hillhouse Avenue, PO Box 208283, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
Email: friedman@math.yale.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07541-0
PII: S 0002-9939(04)07541-0
Keywords: Knots, knot cobordism, slice knots, knot spinning, frame spinning, Seifert matrix
Received by editor(s): May 20, 2003
Posted: May 12, 2004
Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
Copyright of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society




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