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A family of non-split topologically slice links with arbitrarily large smooth slice genus

A family of non-split topologically slice links with arbitrarily large smooth slice genus

We construct an infinite family of topologically slice 2–component boundary links $\ell _i$, none of which is smoothly concordant to a split link, such that $g_4(\ell _i)=i$.