Nonconcordance conjecture for iterated Whitehead doubles of the trefoil

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Let T2,3T_{2,3} be the (2,3)(2,3) torus knot, and let D(K)D(K) denote its positively-clasped untwisted Whitehead double. Two knots are smoothly concordant when their connected sum with one orientation-reversed mirror is smoothly slice. Nonconcordance conjecture for iterated Whitehead doubles of the trefoil. The knots

D(T2,3)andD2(T2,3)D(T_{2,3})\quad\text{and}\quad D^2(T_{2,3})

are not smoothly concordant. All concordance invariants discussed in the source take the same values on these knots, so their smooth concordance remains mysterious and the conjecture is open.

References

Primary source

Kyungbae Park, “On independence of iterated Whitehead doubles in the knot concordance group”, arXiv:1311.2050 (2018).

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