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Banding, twisted ribbon knots, and producing reducible manifolds via Dehn surgery

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Bleiler, S.A. Banding, twisted ribbon knots, and producing reducible manifolds via Dehn surgery. Math. Ann. 286, 679–696 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01453596

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