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The slicing number of a knot

Charles Livingston

Published 2002-06-07, updated 2002-12-16Version 3

An open question asks if every knot of 4-genus g_s can be changed into a slice knot by g_s crossing changes. A counterexample is given.

Comments: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol2/agt-2-41.abs.html Version 3: reference to Murakami and Yasuhara added
Journal: Algebr. Geom. Topol. 2 (2002) 1051-1060
Categories: math.GT
Subjects: 57M25, 57N70
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