The stable Generalized Property R conjecture

Let LL be an R-link, meaning an nn-component link in S3S^3 whose 0-surgery yields Yn=#n(S1×S2)Y_n=\mathop{\#}^n(S^1\times S^2). Let UU be a 0-framed unlink. The stable Generalized Property R conjecture. For every R-link LL, there is a 0-framed unlink UU such that LUL\sqcup U is handleslide-equivalent to an unlink. This is a weaker stabilization of the Generalized Property R conjecture and has the same implication for the associated homotopy 4-spheres; its general validity is open.

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Primary source

Jeffrey Meier and Alexander Zupan, “Generalized square knots and homotopy 4-spheres”, arXiv:1904.08527 (2019).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1507.06561.

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