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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of California, 92093-0112, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Michael H. Freedman

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Research supported in part by NSF/MCS 8303126 and the MacArthur Foundation

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Freedman, M.H. Whitehead3 is a “Slice” link. Invent Math 94, 175–182 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01394351

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