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On the Slice-Ribbon Conjecture for Montesinos knots

Geometric Topology 2009-10-27 v1

Abstract

We establish the slice-ribbon conjecture for a large family of Montesinos' knots by means of Donaldson's theorem on the intersection forms of definite 4-manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.0910.4601,
  title  = {On the Slice-Ribbon Conjecture for Montesinos knots},
  author = {Ana G. Lecuona},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4601},
  year   = {2009}
}

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53 pages, 12 figures