All frame-spun knots are slice

Friedman, Greg

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07541-0

All frame-spun knots are slice
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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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