New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 22 (2016) 711-714

  

Daniel Ruberman

On smoothly superslice knots

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Published: July 23, 2016
Keywords: Superslice, doubly slice
Subject: 57M25, 57Q60

Abstract
We find smoothly slice (in fact doubly slice) knots in the 3-sphere with trivial Alexander polynomial that are not superslice, answering a question posed by Livingston and Meier.

Acknowledgements

The author was partially supported by NSF Grant 1506328.


Author information

Department of Mathematics, MS 050, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454
ruberman@brandeis.edu