The groups of fibred 2-knots (Q2867796)

A 2-knot is a locally flat embedding of a 2-sphere in the 4-sphere \(S^4\). In this paper, the author investigates the groups of fibred 2-knots, and high-dimensional fibred knots. The main results are as follows. Every high-dimensional knot group with free commutator subgroup is realized as the group of a fibred 2-knot. If the conjecture holds true that all \(PD_3\)-groups are 3-manifold groups, then a 2-knot group \(\pi\) is the group of a fibred 2-knot if and only if the commutator subgroup satisfying a certain condition is finitely generated. Together with this result, other conjectures imply that if \(\pi\) satisfies another condition, namely that it is torsion-free, then any 2-knot with group \(\pi\) is \(s\)-concordant to a fibred 2-knot. Further, the author gives results on high-dimensional fibred knots, and 2-knots with finitely generated normal subgroups. The paper is closed by enumerating several open questions.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1272.57002].