Smooth-sliceness conjecture for zero-twisted Whitehead doubles
Smooth-sliceness conjecture for zero-twisted Whitehead doubles
Let be a knot, and let denote its zero-twisted Whitehead double. Smooth-sliceness conjecture for zero-twisted Whitehead doubles. The knot is smoothly slice if and only if its zero-twisted Whitehead double is smoothly slice. This relates smooth knot concordance to Whitehead doubles; the source notes that Freedman's result makes every zero-twisted Whitehead double topologically locally flatly slice, while the supplied text gives no resolution of the smooth equivalence.
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Primary source
John B. Etnyre, “Legendrian and Transversal Knots”, arXiv:math/0306256 (2004).
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