Freedman's conjecture on surgery for free groups
Freedman's conjecture on surgery for free groups
Let be a topological -manifold, let denote the wedge of three circles, and let denote the zero-framed surgery on the Whitehead double of the Borromean rings. Freedman's conjecture. There does not exist a topological -manifold homotopy equivalent to whose boundary is homeomorphic to . This conjecture concerns the failure of topological surgery for free fundamental groups, in contrast with the known surgery results for simply connected and other good groups; its resolution is not specified in the supplied text.
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Primary source
Vyacheslav Krushkal, “Link groups and the A-B slice problem”, arXiv:math/0602105 (2008).
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