Round handle problem

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2021.V17.N1.A6MaRDI QIDQ2025309zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Min Hoon Kim, Mark Powell, Peter Teichner

Publication date 12 May 2021

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09571

zbMATH Keywords

\(s\)-cobordismround handle problemtopological surgery

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40) Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70)

Abstract: We present the Round Handle Problem, proposed by Freedman and Krushkal. It asks whether a collection of links, which contains the Generalised Borromean Rings, are slice in a 4-manifold R constructed from adding round handles to the four ball. A negative answer would contradict the union of the surgery conjecture and the s-cobordism conjecture for 4-manifolds with free fundamental group.

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