We determine which integral surgeries on a large class of circular chain links bound rational homology balls. Our key tool is the lattice-theoretic cubiquity obstruction recently developed by Greene and Owens Alternating links, rational balls, and cube tilings, 2022. We discuss a practical method of computing it, and, as an application, prove that a generalisation of the slice–ribbon conjecture holds for all but one infinite family of quasi-alternating 3-braid links, which extends previous results of Lisca concerning the conjecture for 3-braid knots.
Brejevs et al. (Thu,) studied this question.