The square knot does not have Property 2R

Let QS3Q\subset S^3 be the square knot, and let Property 2R2R mean that whenever QQ is a component of a 22-component link whose integral surgery yields

#2(S1×S2),\#_{2}(S^1\times S^2),

a sequence of handle slides converts the link into a 00-framed unlink. Square-knot Property 2R conjecture. The square knot does not have Property 2R2R. This proposed counterexample is motivated by a family of links whose surgery yields #2(S1×S2)\#_2(S^1\times S^2) and by the apparent difficulty of trivializing the associated presentations; the source presents it as a question motivated by evidence, not as an established result.

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Robert E. Gompf and Martin Scharlemann, “Fibered knots and Property 2R, II”, arXiv:0908.2795 (2009).

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