Smooth-sliceness conjecture for zero-twisted Whitehead doubles

Let KK be a knot, and let W0(K)W_0(K) denote its zero-twisted Whitehead double. Smooth-sliceness conjecture for zero-twisted Whitehead doubles. The knot KK is smoothly slice if and only if its zero-twisted Whitehead double W0(K)W_0(K) 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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John B. Etnyre, “Legendrian and Transversal Knots”, arXiv:math/0306256 (2004).

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