The injectivity conjecture for positive Whitehead doubles of slice disks

Let KK be a knot, and let D1D_1 and D2D_2 be slice disks for KK in B4B^4. Their positive Whitehead doubles are the slice disks obtained by applying the positive Whitehead satellite construction to D1D_1 and D2D_2. Slice-disk Whitehead-double conjecture. The disks D1D_1 and D2D_2 are smoothly isotopic if and only if their positive Whitehead doubles are smoothly isotopic. The disks are topologically isotopic under the relevant cyclic-complement hypotheses, so the conjecture asks whether the positive Whitehead-double operation detects smooth isotopy classes of slice disks; its status is not resolved in the source.

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

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