The Generalized Property R Conjecture for links
The Generalized Property R Conjecture for links
Let be an -component link in . A 0-framed surgery on means surgery with framing zero on every component, and let denote the connected sum of copies of . The Generalized Property R Conjecture. If 0-framed surgery on yields , then is handle-slide equivalent to the -component unlink.
This extends Property R from knots to links and connects 3-dimensional surgery with 4-dimensional handle calculus. The source describes the conjecture as an open problem; stable and weak variants are considered because the proposed GST links may be counterexamples.
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Primary source
Wenjie Diao, Haoqian Pan and Chunxing Yan, “Some experimental results on stable equivalence of GST Links for the Generalized Property R Conjecture”, arXiv:2604.17737 (2026).
Additional references
7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2603.23717, arXiv:1904.08527, arXiv:1507.06561, arXiv:1103.1601, arXiv:0909.0280, arXiv:math/0603511.
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