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is a 2-disk with genus 0.) There can be an arbitrarily great difference between the smooth and the topologically locally flat slice genus of a knot; a theorem of
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is required only to be a topological embedding, since the cone on
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is 1, then the topologically locally flat slice genus of
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The (smooth) slice genus is zero if and only if the knot is
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is 0, but it can be proved in many ways (originally with
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is required to be smoothly embedded, then this integer
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is the boundary of a connected, orientable 2-manifold
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mathematics
knot
topologically locally flatly
Michael Freedman
Alexander polynomial
gauge theory
Thurston–Bennequin invariant
concordant
unknot
Slice knot
knot genus
Milnor conjecture (topology)
"The slice genus and the Thurston-Bennequin invariant of a knot"
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
doi
10.1090/S0002-9939-97-04258-5
MR
1443854
Elsevier
MR
2179265
ISBN
0-444-51452-X
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knot theory-related
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