Doubly sliced knots which are not the double of a disk

Smolinsky, L.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1986-0860389-3

Doubly sliced knots which are not the double of a disk
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Abstract:

In this paper we show that double disk knots can be distinguished from general doubly sliced knots in dimensions $4n + 1$.

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