Existence of virtually equivalent, non-isotopic knotted spheres
Let . A knotted -sphere is an embedded in , and two such knots are virtually equivalent when they become equivalent after the allowed virtual replacements. Existence conjecture. There are knotted -spheres in 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 .
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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