Triviality of a surface-link with meridian-based free fundamental group
Geometric Topology
2021-05-06 v3
Abstract
It is proved that every disconnected surface-link with meridian-based free fundamental group is a trivial (i.e., an unknotted-unlinked) surface-link. This result is a surface-link version of the author's recent announcement result on smooth unknotting of a surface-knot.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1804.04269,
title = {Triviality of a surface-link with meridian-based free fundamental group},
author = {Akio Kawauchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04269},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Minor expression changes and a reference addition