Unknotting 3-balls in the 5-ball

DOI10.1090/PROC/16624arXiv2206.11243MaRDI QIDQ6154344FDOQ6154344

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Publication date: 15 February 2024

Abstract: The purpose of this note is to answer affirmatively a question posed by both Gay, and Hughes, Kim and Miller as to whether every $3$--ball smoothly embedded in the $4$--sphere becomes isotopic relative to the bounding 2-sphere when pushed into the 5-ball.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11243

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Isotopy in differential topology (57R52) Higher-dimensional knots and links (57K45)

Cites Work

• Sur les difféomorphismes de la sphère de dimension trois \(\Gamma_ 4 = 0\)
• Classification of knots in codimension two

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