Ribbonness of a stable-ribbon surface-link, II. General case
Geometric Topology
2025-01-14 v4
Abstract
It is shown that any handle-irreducible summand of every stable-ribbon surface-link is a unique ribbon surface-link up to equivalences, so that every stable-ribbon surface-link is a ribbon surface-link. This is a generalization of a previously observed result for a stably trivial surface-link. Two observations are given. One observation is that a connected sum of two surface-links is a ribbon surface-link if and only if both the connected summands are ribbon surface-links. The other observation is a characterization of when a surface-link consisting of ribbon surface-knot components becomes a ribbon surface-link.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1907.09713,
title = {Ribbonness of a stable-ribbon surface-link, II. General case},
author = {Akio Kawauchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.09713},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
This is a revised version correcting an error statement