Freely topologically slice conjecture for the untwisted Whitehead double of the Borromean Rings
Freely topologically slice conjecture for the untwisted Whitehead double of the Borromean Rings
Let 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 -ball whose complement has free fundamental group generated by the meridians to the link components. Freely topologically slice conjecture. The untwisted Whitehead double 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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Primary source
Vyacheslav S. Krushkal, “Surgery and involutions on 4-manifolds”, arXiv:math/0505394 (2005).
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