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Two-bridge links with strong triviality. (English) Zbl 1104.57007
Summary: We study strong triviality of two-bridge links. We prove that every (non-trivial) two-bridge link can not be strongly $$n$$-trivial for $$n\geq 1$$.

##### MSC:
 57M25 Knots and links in the $$3$$-sphere (MSC2010)
##### Keywords:
$$S^2\times S^1$$; Dehn surgery; strongly $$n$$-trivial
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