Existence of virtually equivalent, non-isotopic knotted spheres

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Let n≥2n\geq 2. A knotted nn-sphere is an embedded SnS^n in Dn+1×[0,1]D^{n+1}\times [0,1], and two such knots are virtually equivalent when they become equivalent after the allowed virtual replacements. Existence conjecture. There are knotted nn-spheres in Dn+1×[0,1]D^{n+1}\times [0,1] which are virtually equivalent but not classically isotopic. The preceding examples involve knotted tori, while it remains open whether analogous examples exist for knotted spheres; the conjecture proposes such examples in every dimension covered by n≥2n\geq 2.

References

Primary source

Blake Winter, “Virtual Links in Arbitrary Dimensions”, arXiv:1509.01174 (2015).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2015). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1407.0421.

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