Covering link calculus and iterated Bing doubles (Q945634)

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    Covering link calculus and iterated Bing doubles (English)
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    17 September 2008
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    The authors give a new geometric obstruction to the iterated Bing double of a knot being a slice link. The main technique used in the proof is a covering link construction simplifying a given link. Combined with algebraic invariants, these results are sharp enough to conclude, that if the \(n\)-th iterated Bing double of a knot is slice for some \(n\), then the knot is algebraically slice. The authors also give explicit examples of algebraically slice knots with nonslice iterated Bing doubles.
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    iterated Bing double
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    covering link
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    slice link
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    concordance invariant
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    Heegaard Floer homology
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