The topological analogue of the Slice-Ribbon Conjecture
A knot is topologically slice if it bounds a topological slice disk in . It is topologically homotopy ribbon if it bounds such a disk for which the inclusion-induced map
is surjective, where is the zero-surgery manifold of . Topological homotopy-ribbon conjecture. Every topologically slice knot is topologically homotopy ribbon. Every ribbon knot is homotopy ribbon, but the stated topological converse remains open.
References
Primary source
Alex Manchester, “Action of the Mazur pattern up to topological concordance”, arXiv:2212.13640 (2024).
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