Splitting spheres for unlinked S²'s in S⁴

2025/02/03 by Tatsuoka, Alison · 1 citation
#FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.01817

Abstract

We show that there exist infinitely many pairwise non-isotopic splitting spheres for two unlinked, unknotted S²'s in S⁴. This answers a question posed by Hughes, Kim, and Miller.

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