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Brunnian links of 3-balls in the 4-sphere

Geometric Topology 2026-03-09 v1

Abstract

For each integer n2n\ge 2, we construct infinitely many nn-component Brunnian links of 3-balls in S4S^4. Our main tool is the third author's result on the existence of splitting spheres for the trivial two-component link of 22-spheres in S4S^{4}; we also give a new proof of this.

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@article{arxiv.2603.06554,
  title  = {Brunnian links of 3-balls in the 4-sphere},
  author = {Seungwon Kim and Gheehyun Nahm and Alison Tatsuoka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.06554},
  year   = {2026}
}

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10 pages, 8 figures, comments welcome!