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superslice

noun

Etymology

From super- + slice.

  1. derived from *sleyd-✻
  2. derived from *slītaną✻
  3. derived from *slitjaną✻
  4. derived from *slitjan✻
  5. derived from esclice
  6. inherited from sclise
  7. prefixed as superslice — “super + slice”

Definitions

  1. A knot for which there is an almost identical trivial knot.

    • The Kinoshita-Terasaka knot K_(KT), illustrated in Fig. 1 is the first example of a superslice, which has been know at latest in 1970 by R.H. Fox, F. Hosokawa, T. Yangawa and others.

  2. A slice that is an amalgamation of smaller slices.

  3. Having the property of being a superslice.

    • Answering a question of Livingston-Meier, we find smoothly slice (in fact doubly slice) knots in the 3-sphere with Alexander polynomial equal to 1 that are not smoothly superslice..

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for superslice. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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