Unknot linearization conjecture for cyclic actions on the four-sphere
Unknot linearization conjecture for cyclic actions on the four-sphere
Let act smoothly on , and suppose its fixed-point set is an unknotted two-sphere. Unknot linearization conjecture. The action is smoothly equivalent to a linear action. In dimension three, every cyclic action on is smoothly equivalent to a linear action, whereas in dimension four there are nonlinear actions whose fixed-point set is a nontrivial -knot. The knot type of the fixed-point set is the only known invariant of two-sphere-fixing cyclic actions on , and the conjecture asserts that the unknotted case is linear.
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Jeffrey Meier and Evan Scott, “An equivariant Laudenbach-Poénaru theorem”, arXiv:2501.10524 (2025).
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