The pochette surgery conjecture for homotopy 4-spheres

Let ee be an embedding of a pochette into S4S^4, let SeS_e denote its associated spun 2-knot, and let S4(e,p/q,ε)S^4(e,p/q,\varepsilon) denote the result of pochette surgery with parameters p/qp/q and ε\varepsilon. The pochette surgery conjecture. If S4(e,p/q,ε)S^4(e,p/q,\varepsilon) is homotopy equivalent to the 4-sphere S4S^4, then S4(e,p/q,0)S^4(e,p/q,0) is diffeomorphic to S4S^4 and S4(e,p/q,1)S^4(e,p/q,1) is the Gluck surgery along SeS_e. In particular, if SeS_e is a twist-spun 2-knot or a 0-slice 2-knot, then S4(e,p/q,ε)S^4(e,p/q,\varepsilon) is diffeomorphic to S4S^4 for every ε{0,1}\varepsilon\in\{0,1\}. The conjecture relates homotopy 4-spheres obtained by pochette surgery to the smooth 4-dimensional Poincaré problem and to Gluck surgery; the source provides no resolution of the general claim.

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Tatsumasa Suzuki, “Constructions of homotopy 4-spheres by pochette surgery”, arXiv:2205.05239 (2023).

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