Getting a handle on the Conway knot

DOI10.1090/BULL/1745MaRDI QIDQ5860468zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jennifer Hom

Publication date 19 November 2021

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

sliceConway knotclassification of slice knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10)

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.

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