Casson–Gordon's three-family conjecture for 2-bridge ribbon knots

A 2-bridge ribbon knot is a ribbon knot that is also a 2-bridge knot. Casson and Gordon identified three families of 2-bridge ribbon knots.

Casson–Gordon's conjecture. Every 2-bridge ribbon knot is contained in one of the three families of Casson and Gordon.

The conjecture is supported computationally: it was verified for all 2-bridge knots with determinant at most 5712571^2, including all such knots with crossing number at most 2626. A proof remains open in the source.

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Primary source

Christoph Lamm, “Symmetric union presentations for 2-bridge ribbon knots”, arXiv:math/0602395 (2022).

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