Gluck twist on a certain family of 2-knots

Abstract

We show that by performing the Gluck twist along the 2-knot K2pq derived from two ribbon presentations of the ribbon 1-knot K(p,q) we get the standard 4-sphere S4. In the proof we apply Kirby calculus.

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