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Doubly slice Montesinos links

Geometric Topology 2021-01-12 v1

Abstract

This paper compares notions of double sliceness for links. The main result is to show that a large family of 2-component Montesinos links are not strongly doubly slice despite being weakly doubly slice and having doubly slice components. Our principal obstruction to strong double slicing comes by considering branched double covers. To this end we prove a result classifying Seifert fibered spaces which admit a smooth embeddings into integer homology S1×S3S^1 \times S^3s by maps inducing surjections on the first homology group. A number of other results and examples pertaining to doubly slice links are also given.

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@article{arxiv.2101.04083,
  title  = {Doubly slice Montesinos links},
  author = {Duncan McCoy and Clayton McDonald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.04083},
  year   = {2021}
}

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35 pages, 17 figures

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