The square knot does not have Property 2R
The square knot does not have Property 2R
Let be the square knot, and let Property mean that whenever is a component of a -component link whose integral surgery yields
a sequence of handle slides converts the link into a -framed unlink. Square-knot Property 2R conjecture. The square knot does not have Property . This proposed counterexample is motivated by a family of links whose surgery yields 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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Primary source
Robert E. Gompf and Martin Scharlemann, “Fibered knots and Property 2R, II”, arXiv:0908.2795 (2009).
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