The topological sliceness of 3-strand pretzel knots (Q2409816)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6791393
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6791393 |
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The topological sliceness of 3-strand pretzel knots (English)
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16 October 2017
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Applying the Casson-Gordon signature invariants of double branched covers, the author proves that an odd 3-strand pretzel knot is topologically slice if and only if either it is ribbon or has trivial Alexander polynomial, and that most topologically slice even 3-strand pretzel knots must be ribbon.
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knot concordance
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pretzel knots
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Casson-Gordon invariants
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