The genus-g handlebody detection conjecture in the 4-sphere
For each , let be 3-dimensional genus- handlebodies with the same boundary, . A simple closed curve in is -compressible if it bounds a compressing disc in . Handlebody detection conjecture. For every , there exist and such that the sets of -compressible and -compressible simple closed curves coincide, but is not isotopic to through an isotopy fixing . This asks whether the compressible-curve data on the common boundary completely detects the embedding of a handlebody in .
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Ryan Budney and David Gabai, “Knotted 3-balls in S^4”, arXiv:1912.09029 (2021).
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