The positive Whitehead double sliceness conjecture

Let KK be a knot in S3S^3. Its positive Whitehead double is the satellite knot obtained using the positive Whitehead pattern. Whitehead double sliceness conjecture. The knot KK is smoothly slice if and only if its positive Whitehead double is smoothly slice. This is a major open problem in smooth knot concordance; topologically, positive Whitehead doubles are always slice when the companion has trivial Alexander polynomial, while knot Floer theoretic results provide supporting evidence.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Gary Guth, Kyle Hayden, Sungkyung Kang and JungHwan Park, “Doubled Disks and Satellite Surfaces”, arXiv:2310.19713 (2023).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.