March 2020 The Conway knot is not slice
Lisa Piccirillo
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Ann. of Math. (2) 191(2): 581-591 (March 2020). DOI: 10.4007/annals.2020.191.2.5

Abstract

A knot is said to be slice if it bounds a smooth properly embedded disk in $B^4$. We demonstrate that the Conway knot is not slice. This completes the classification of slice knots under $13$ crossings and gives the first example of a non-slice knot which is both topologically slice and a positive mutant of a slice knot.

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Lisa Piccirillo. "The Conway knot is not slice." Ann. of Math. (2) 191 (2) 581 - 591, March 2020. https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2020.191.2.5

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Published: March 2020
First available in Project Euclid: 21 December 2021

Digital Object Identifier: 10.4007/annals.2020.191.2.5

Subjects:
Primary: 57M25 , 57R65

Keywords: $4$-manifolds , Conway mutation , knot concordance

Rights: Copyright © 2020 Department of Mathematics, Princeton University

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