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Is there a nontrivial ribbon knot concordance from a knot to itself?
In the topological category, a locally flat concordance from knot $K$ to knot $J$ is homotopy-ribbon when the fundamental group of $S^3-K$ injects into the fundamental group of the concordance ...
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