Quasipositivity as an obstruction to sliceness

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00397-5zbMath0789.57004arXivmath/9307233WikidataQ60148877 ScholiaQ60148877MaRDI QIDQ3138088

Publication date: 20 June 1994

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9307233

zbMATH Keywords

slice knot slice-Bennequin inequality quasi-positive braids 4-ball genus algebraic crossing number link of an algebraic singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Milnor fibration; relations with knot theory (32S55) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Curves in algebraic geometry (14H99)

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