The knot-surgery diffeomorphism conjecture for the K3 surface

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Let E(2)E(2) be the elliptic K3 surface, and let XK1X_{K_1} and XK2X_{K_2} denote the manifolds obtained from E(2)E(2) by knot surgery using knots K1K_1 and K2K_2, respectively. Knot-surgery diffeomorphism conjecture. The manifolds XK1X_{K_1} and XK2X_{K_2} are diffeomorphic if and only if K1K_1 and K2K_2 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.

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Primary source

Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern, “Constructions of Smooth 4-Manifolds”, arXiv:math/9907178 (1999).

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