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Unknotting crossing

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An unknotting crossing is a crossing whose crossing change converts a knot into the unknot. It gives a genus-one knot cobordism to the unknot, and hence slice genus at most one after capping with a disk in B4.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2012 / iii / Paper 16 / 2 / Solution

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