Some cobordism invariants for links

1 September 1969

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vol. 66 (2) , 251-264
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100044947

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to obtain some necessary conditions for a link in Euclidean 3-space to be spanned by a locally unknotted surface of given type in one half of 4-space. In particular necessary conditions for two links to be cobordant are proved.

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