The slice Akbulut–Kirby conjecture

Let KK and KK' be knots in S3S^3, and let S03(K)S^3_0(K) denote the 33-manifold obtained by zero surgery on KK. A knot is slice if it bounds a smoothly embedded disk in B4B^4. Slice Akbulut–Kirby conjecture. If KK is slice and there is a zero-surgery homeomorphism

ϕ:S03(K)S03(K),\phi:S^3_0(K)\longrightarrow S^3_0(K'),

then KK' is also slice. The conjecture is the slice case left open by Yasui's counterexamples to the original Akbulut–Kirby conjecture, and it motivated the Manolescu–Piccirillo approach to the smooth Poincaré conjecture in dimension four.

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Kai Nakamura, “Torus surguries on knot traces”, arXiv:2503.20684 (2025).

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