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Some cobordism invariants for links

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. G. Tristram
A. G. Tristram
Affiliation:
Churchill College, Cambridge
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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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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , September 1969 , pp. 251 - 264
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1969

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