The obstruction conjecture for strongly exotic H-slice trace surgeries
The obstruction conjecture for strongly exotic H-slice trace surgeries
Let and be knots in , and let denote the -manifold obtained by zero surgery on . A knot is H-slice in a -manifold if it bounds a smoothly embedded disk in representing the relevant homological sliceness condition. Let be the dimension of a maximal positive-definite subspace of the intersection form of . Obstruction conjecture. If there is a zero-surgery homeomorphism
and is H-slice in a symplectic -manifold with , then does not bound a disk in any symplectic -manifold with , , and . The conjecture is intended to say that the Manolescu–Marengon–Piccirillo obstruction cannot detect strongly exotic H-slice trace surgeries; its status is not resolved in the supplied text.
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Kai Nakamura, “Torus surguries on knot traces”, arXiv:2503.20684 (2025).
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