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A note concerning Seifert manifolds for 2-knots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Bruce Trace
Bruce Trace
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Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama, University, AL 35486
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Abstract

Elementary observations yield new classes of knotted 2-spheres in S4 which do not admit Punct (# S1 × S2) as a Seifert manifold. This provides a rather painless proof which re-establishes the existence of non-ribbon 2-knots.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 100 , Issue 1 , July 1986 , pp. 113 - 116
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1986

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