Whitehead\(_ 3\) is a ``slice link

DOI10.1007/BF01394351zbMath0678.57002OpenAlexW2154034657MaRDI QIDQ1124169

Michael Hartley Freedman

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/143624

zbMATH Keywords

linking numbersurgeryslice links4- manifoldWhitehead double of a two component link

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery and handlebodies (57R65)

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• A new technique for the link slice problem
• Concordance invariance of coefficients of Conway's link polynomial
• A quick proof of the 4-dimensional stable surgery theorem
• Homology and central series of groups
• Link groups

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