A non-ribbon plumbing of fibered ribbon knots

Rudolph, Lee

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06520-6

A non-ribbon plumbing of fibered ribbon knots
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 3741-3743 Request permission

Abstract:

A closer look at an example introduced by Livingston and Melvin and later studied by Miyazaki shows that a plumbing of two fibered ribbon knots (along their fiber surfaces) may be algebraically slice yet not ribbon.

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