The equivariant slice-ribbon conjecture
Let be a periodic knot in whose periodic diffeomorphism extends to and preserves a slice disk; such a knot is called equivariant slice. It is called equivariant ribbon if the preserved slice disk is ribbon.
Equivariant slice-ribbon conjecture. An equivariant slice knot is equivariant ribbon.
This is a strengthening of the classical slice-ribbon problem to knots with a compatible periodic symmetry. The paper notes that all knots known at the time to be equivariant slice were equivariant ribbon, but does not establish the conjecture.
References
Primary source
James F. Davis and Swatee Naik, “Alexander polynomials of equivariant slice and ribbon knots in S^3”, arXiv:math/0201179 (2002).
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