Band-sums are ribbon concordant to the connected sum

Miyazaki, Katura

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04352-4

Band-sums are ribbon concordant to the connected sum
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Abstract:

We show that an arbitrary band-connected sum of two or more knots are ribbon concordant to the connected sum of these knots. As an application we consider which knot can be a nontrivial band-connected sum.

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