The finite-predecessor conjecture for ribbon concordance
The finite-predecessor conjecture for ribbon concordance
Let be a knot in , and write when the knot is ribbon concordant to . Finite-predecessor conjecture. For each knot , there are only finitely many knots .
This conjecture was proposed as an a priori stronger version of Gordon's descending-chain conjecture. The paper's abstract states that the authors prove the corresponding finiteness result for fibered predecessors, while the unrestricted conjecture is not stated as resolved here.
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John A. Baldwin, Jonathan Hanselman and Steven Sivek, “Ribbon concordance and fibered predecessors, II: the general case”, arXiv:2602.21109 (2026).
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