A non-ribbon plumbing of fibered ribbon knots
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- by Lee Rudolph
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 3741-3743
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06520-6
- Published electronically: April 22, 2002
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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.References
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Bibliographic Information
- Lee Rudolph
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610
- Email: lrudolph@black.clarku.edu
- Received by editor(s): July 16, 2001
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: August 1, 2001
- Published electronically: April 22, 2002
- Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
- © Copyright 2002 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 3741-3743
- MSC (2000): Primary 57M25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06520-6
- MathSciNet review: 1920056