On the Slice-Ribbon Conjecture for Montesinos knots

Abstract

We establish the slice-ribbon conjecture for a large family of Montesinos' knots by means of Donaldson's theorem on the intersection forms of definite 4-manifolds.

53 pages, 12 figures

References in corpus (2)

• The slice-ribbon conjecture for 3-stranded pretzel knots
• Obstructing Sliceness in a Family of Montesinos Knots