Boundary links and an unlinking theorem

Boundary links and an unlinking theorem
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Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 171 (1972), 491-499

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1972-0310902-X

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This paper gives a homotopic theoretic criterion for a higher dimensional link to be trivial.

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