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Spanning 3-discs in the 4-sphere pushed into the 5-disc

arXiv:2512.05952

Abstract

I prove that any two smooth collections of spanning 3-discs for the trivial 2-link in become smoothly isotopic rel. boundary after pushing them into .

5 pages, accepted for publication in the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics. Comments welcome

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