Celoria–Levine–Friedl–Nagel–Orson–Powell concordance conjecture
Celoria–Levine–Friedl–Nagel–Orson–Powell concordance conjecture
Let be a closed orientable -manifold, let denote the set of free homotopy classes of loops in , and let be the set of concordance classes of knots in representing . An embedded dual 2-sphere for is an embedded -sphere in meeting a representative of transversely in one point. Concordance conjecture. The concordance set contains infinitely many elements if and only if the class does not admit an embedded dual 2-sphere. The Concordance Lightbulb Theorem establishes the complementary case: when admits an embedded dual -sphere, all knots representing are concordant. The conjecture asserts that this is the exceptional case, while infinitude in the remaining cases is open in general.
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Ryan Stees, “Almost-concordance of knots in aspherical 3-manifolds”, arXiv:2508.14638 (2025).
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