Nonconcordance conjecture for iterated Whitehead doubles of the trefoil

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.

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

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