Slicing Bing doubles
Geometric Topology
2009-07-06 v2
Abstract
Bing doubling is an operation which produces a 2-component boundary link B(K) from a knot K. If K is slice, then B(K) is easily seen to be boundary slice. In this paper, we investigate whether the converse holds. Our main result is that if B(K) is boundary slice, then K is algebraically slice. We also show that the Rasmussen invariant can tell that certain Bing doubles are not smoothly slice.
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@article{arxiv.math/0609458,
title = {Slicing Bing doubles},
author = {David Cimasoni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0609458},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
This is the version published by Algebraic & Geometric Topology on 13 December 2006