Getting a handle on the Conway knot

DOI10.1090/BULL/1745zbMATH Open1477.57004arXiv2107.09171OpenAlexW3208757109MaRDI QIDQ5860468FDOQ5860468

Authors: Jennifer Hom 

Publication date: 19 November 2021

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A knot is said to be slice if it bounds a smooth disk in the 4-ball. For 50 years, it was unknown whether a certain 11 crossing knot, called the Conway knot, was slice or not, and until recently, this was the only one of the thousands of knots with fewer than 13 crossings whose slice-status remained a mystery. We will describe Lisa Piccirillo's proof that the Conway knot is not slice. The main idea of her proof is given in the title of this article.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09171

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zbMATH Keywords

sliceConway knotclassification of slice knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10)

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