The injectivity conjecture for positive Whitehead doubles of slice disks
The injectivity conjecture for positive Whitehead doubles of slice disks
Let be a knot, and let and be slice disks for in . Their positive Whitehead doubles are the slice disks obtained by applying the positive Whitehead satellite construction to and . Slice-disk Whitehead-double conjecture. The disks and 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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