The finite-predecessor conjecture for ribbon concordance

Let KK be a knot in S3S^3, and write JKJ\leq K when the knot JJ is ribbon concordant to KK. Finite-predecessor conjecture. For each knot KS3K\subset S^3, there are only finitely many knots JKJ\leq K.

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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