Topologically slice (1,1)-knots which are not smoothly slice

2019/01/23 by Nie, Zipei
#FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1901.07774

Abstract

We prove that there are infinitely many (1,1)-knots which are topologically slice, but not smoothly slice, which was a conjecture proposed by Béla András Rácz.

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