Abstract
An oriented 2-component link is called band-trivializable, if it can be unknotted by a single band surgery. We consider whether a given 2-component link is band-trivializable or not. Then we can completely determine the band-trivializability for the prime links with up to 9 crossings. We use the signature, the Jones and Q polynomials, and the Arf invariant. Since a band-trivializable link has 4-ball genus zero, we also give a table for the 4-ball genus of the prime links with up to 9 crossings. Furthermore, we give an additional answer to the problem of whether a (2n + 1)-crossing 2-bridge knot is related to a (2, 2n) torus link or not by a band surgery for n = 3, 4, which comes from the study of a DNA site-specific recombination.
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