Freely topologically slice conjecture for the untwisted Whitehead double of the Borromean Rings

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Let Wh(Bor){\rm Wh}({\rm Bor}) denote the untwisted Whitehead double of the Borromean Rings. A link is freely topologically slice if its components bound disjoint locally flat disks in the 44-ball whose complement has free fundamental group generated by the meridians to the link components. Freely topologically slice conjecture. The untwisted Whitehead double Wh(Bor){\rm Wh}({\rm Bor}) of the Borromean Rings is not freely topologically slice. The statement is one of the canonical four-dimensional surgery problems and is related to the long-standing conjecture that the topological surgery theorem holds for arbitrary fundamental groups. The source states that the slicing problem remains open even without the additional free-complement requirement.

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Vyacheslav S. Krushkal, “Surgery and involutions on 4-manifolds”, arXiv:math/0505394 (2005).

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