The knot-surgery diffeomorphism conjecture for the K3 surface
Let be the elliptic K3 surface, and let and denote the manifolds obtained from by knot surgery using knots and , respectively. Knot-surgery diffeomorphism conjecture. The manifolds and are diffeomorphic if and only if and are equivalent knots. This proposes that, for the K3 surface, the knot-surgery construction detects the knot type beyond the information captured by Seiberg–Witten invariants. The source does not provide evidence of a resolution, so the conjecture is recorded as open.
References
Primary source
Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern, “Constructions of Smooth 4-Manifolds”, arXiv:math/9907178 (1999).
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