Lemma 4.1. The inclusion induces an isomorphism
Proof. The proof is a straightforward generalization of the proof of [25, Theorem 1.4], which deals with boundary connected sums. The map is induced by the map sending lasagna fillings of to lasagna fillings of along the embedding . The inverse is given on lasagna fillings in by looking at their intersection with a neighborhood of the cocores of all 1-handles. Up to a small isotopy, each such intersection is an identity cobordism on a link . The inverse map is given by replacing it by a sum of pairs of input balls, labelled by basis and dual basis elements of respectively. The resulting linear combination of fillings can be isotoped into , and is equivalent to the original filling according to the neck-cutting lemma (Lemma 7.2 in [25]). ∎
Original source: arXiv:2206.04616v2