For each g > 0 $g>0$ we give infinitely many knots that are strongly negative amphichiral, hence rationally slice and representing 2-torsion in the smooth concordance group, yet which do not bound any locally flatly embedded surface in the 4-ball with genus less than or equal to g g . Our examples also allow us to answer a question about the four-dimensional clasp number of knots.
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