Nonexistence of Whitney towers with the framed Arf tree invariant
Nonexistence of Whitney towers with the framed Arf tree invariant
Let support a Whitney tower , and let denote its associated tree invariant. Let be the sum of trees in Figure 8 of the source, possibly together with higher-order trees. Framed Arf tree restriction. There does not exist such an supporting with
This is another formulation of the conjecture that the Bing double of any knot with non-trivial classical Arf invariant does not bound an order-six framed Whitney tower. The claim remains open.
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Primary source
Rob Schneiderman, “Introduction to Whitney Towers”, arXiv:2012.01475 (2020).
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