A counterexample to Batson's conjecture
Geometric Topology
2019-06-04 v1
Abstract
We show that the torus knot bounds a smooth M\"obius band in the -ball, giving a counterexample to Batson's non-orientable analogue of Milnor's conjecture on the smooth slice genera of torus knots.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1906.00799,
title = {A counterexample to Batson's conjecture},
author = {Andrew Lobb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.00799},
year = {2019}
}