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Knotted ball pairs whose product with an interval is unknotted

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  1. Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, 16 Mill Lane, CB2 1SB, Cambridge, England

    C. McA. Gordon

  2. Florida State University, 32306, Tallahassee, Florida

    D. W. Sumners

  3. The Institute for Advanced Study, 08540, Princeton, New Jersey

    D. W. Sumners

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Supported by a Science Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.

Research partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant GP-19964.

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Gordon, C.M., Sumners, D.W. Knotted ball pairs whose product with an interval is unknotted. Math. Ann. 217, 47–52 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01363239

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