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The $(2,1)$-cable of the figure-eight knot is not smoothly slice

Irving Dai, Sungkyung Kang, Abhishek Mallick, JungHwan Park, Matthew Stoffregen

Published 2022-07-28Version 1

We prove that the $(2,1)$-cable of the figure-eight knot is not smoothly slice by showing that its branched double cover bounds no equivariant homology ball.

Comments: 14 pages
Categories: math.GT
Subjects: 57K18, 57M12
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