Thursday, 14 November 2013

knot theory - If the 4-genus of a link is zero, is it a slice link?

An n-component slice link is a link that bounds n disjoint discs in B^4. And the 4-genus of a link is defined to be the minimal genus of orientable surfaces bounded by it in B^4.



My question is: if the link bounds a surface with zero genus in B^4, is it necessarily a slice link? If not, any counter examples?

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