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The author has been supported in this work by: the University of California, San Diego; NSF Grant MCS82-03126; A.P. Sloan Fellowship BR2065; and the University of Texas at Austin where this approach had its first glimmer of success; the untwisted double of the trefoil knot being sliced there in November 1982. This preceded (but only by two weeks) the slicing of the general Alexander polynomial=1-knot using different methods [F4]
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Freedman, M.H. A new technique for the link slice problem. Invent Math 80, 453–465 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01388725
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