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The Montesinos trick for proper rational tangle replacement
Duncan McCoy, Raphael Zentner
Recently Iltgen, Lewark and Marino introduced the concept of a proper rational tangle replacement and the corresponding notion of the proper rational unknotting number. In this not…
math.GT2021
Doubly slice Montesinos links
Duncan McCoy, Clayton McDonald
This paper compares notions of double sliceness for links. The main result is to show that a large family of 2-component Montesinos links are not strongly doubly slice despite bein…