JournalscmhVol. 84, No. 3pp. 617–638

New constructions of slice links

  • Tim D. Cochran

    Rice University, Houston, USA

  • Stefan Friedl

    Universität Regensburg, Germany

  • Peter Teichner

    University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Abstract

We use techniques of Freedman and Teichner [FT] to prove that under certain circumstances the multi-infection of a slice link is again slice (not necessarily smoothly slice). We provide a general context for proving links are slice that includes many of the previously known results.

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Tim D. Cochran, Stefan Friedl, Peter Teichner, New constructions of slice links. Comment. Math. Helv. 84 (2009), no. 3, pp. 617–638

DOI 10.4171/CMH/175