Cancellation conjecture for doubly slice knots

Knots are considered up to connected sum, and a knot is doubly slice if it is the cross-section of an unknotted 22-sphere in S4S^4.

Cancellation conjecture. If knots JJ and K#JK\#J are doubly slice, then KK is doubly slice.

This conjecture asks whether doubly sliceness admits cancellation under connected sum. It is presented as unanswered and concerns the structure of the double concordance group.

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Primary source

Taehee Kim, “New obstructions to doubly slicing knots”, arXiv:math/0411126 (2004).

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