The Conway knot is not slice — mentioned by pmiller2

Tue, 19 May 2020 18:52:02 GMT

Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02923 I have not read the paper, but I have skimmed it briefly, and it looks pretty exciting. This isn't a case of "here's a new invariant, and, oh, BTW, it works to show the Conway knot isn't slice." It's an actual new technique. And, at first glance, it looks like a pretty simple technique. I didn't immediately see anything here that wasn't just a neat combination of low dimensional topology and basic knot theory techniques. I'd be interested to see what this technique could do with knots having more than 12 crossings.

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The Conway knot is not slice — mentioned by pmiller2