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arxiv: 0912.5222 · v3 · pith:VVON3CDSnew · submitted 2009-12-28 · 🧮 math.GT

Slicing mixed Bing-Whitehead doubles

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We show that if K is any knot whose Ozsvath-Szabo concordance invariant tau(K) is positive, the all-positive Whitehead double of any iterated Bing double of K is topologically but not smoothly slice. We also show that the all-positive Whitehead double of any iterated Bing double of the Hopf link (e.g., the all-positive Whitehead double of the Borromean rings) is not smoothly slice; it is not known whether these links are topologically slice.

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