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topological "milnor's conjecture" on torus knots.
Here's a question that has come up in a couple of talks that I have given recently.
The 'classical' way to show that there is a knot $K$ that is locally-flat slice in the 4-ball but not smoothly ...
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Explicit embeddings of Cappell-Shaneson knots
In 1976 Cappell and Shaneson gave some examples of knots in homotopy 4-spheres and for some time these examples were considered as possible counter-examples to the smooth 4-dimensional Poincare ...
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slice=ribbon generalization to higher genus + potential counterexamples to slice=ribbon.
I have two questions about the slice=ribbon conjecture.
(1) If a knot $K \hookrightarrow S^3$ has smooth slice genus $g$, you can ask if it bounds a smooth genus $g$ surface in $S^3 \times [0, -\...
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Knotted concordances of slice links
Are there any examples of a link $L$ such that:
$L$ is (strongly) slice, meaning that there exists a properly embedded collection $C$ of $n=|L|$ disjoint annuli in $S^3\times [0,1]$ such that $C\cap ...
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4-genus of a 2-bridge link
How can we calculate the 4-genus of a link L? The 4-genus is defined to be the minimal genus of orientable surface bounded by L in B^4. Is there any routine method to calculate that?
Especially, any ...
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Equivalence of knotted spheres in $S^4$
Say we have two smoothly embedded spheres $K, K' \subset S^4$ that are equivalent in the sense that there is a diffeomorphism of pairs $(S^4, K)$ and $(S^4, K')$. Does it follow that they are ...
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If the 4-genus of a link is zero, is it a slice link?
An n-component slice link is a link that bounds n disjoint discs in B^4. And the 4-genus of a link is defined to be the minimal genus of orientable surfaces bounded by it in B^4.
My question is: if ...
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