Gordon's order-two concordance conjecture

Let KS3K\subseteq S^3 be a knot, and write K#KK\#K for its connected sum with itself. A knot is negative amphichiral if it is isotopic to rKr\overline{K}, where rr denotes reversal and K\overline{K} denotes the mirror. Gordon's conjecture. If K#KK\#K is slice, then KK is smoothly concordant to a negative amphichiral knot. This asks whether every element of order at most two in the smooth knot concordance group is represented, up to smooth concordance, by a negative amphichiral knot.

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Primary source

Arunima Ray, “Slice knots and knot concordance”, arXiv:2311.12168 (2023).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2108.10400, arXiv:1902.04050, arXiv:1711.01741.

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