On the relative slice problem and four dimensional topological surgery
A pair of disjoint links \((L,H)\) in \(S^3\) is called relatively slice if the components of \(L\) bound disjoint embedded (topologically flat) discs in the handlebody obtained from the 4-ball by attaching 2-handles along the components of \(H\) with zero framings. The main result of this paper is that a restricted class of link pairs is not relatively slice. This is related to open questions in four-dimensional topological manifolds. The four-dimensional surgery conjecture fails for manifolds with fundamental group a free group if and only if link pairs in a certain infinite family are not relatively slice. Thus, the paper describes approaches which may be useful in the search for an obstruction to 4-dimensional surgery.
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- On the \((A,B)\)-slice problem
- Round handle problem
- Link compositions and the topological slice problem
- A counterexample to the strong version of Freedman's conjecture
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- A construction of slice knots via annulus twists
- Algebraic and Heegaard–Floer invariants of knots with slice Bing doubles
- Link groups and the A-B slice problem
- On doubled 3-manifolds and minimal handle presentations for 4-manifolds
- Surfaces in 4-manifolds and the surgery conjecture
- The Novikov conjecture and low-dimensional topology
- Surgery and involutions on 4-manifolds
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