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Knotted surfaces with simply-connected complements

Geometric Topology 2026-07-16 v1

Abstract

We study locally flat, compact, oriented, genus g, surfaces with boundary a fixed knot K, properly embedded in simply-connected 4-manifolds with boundary the 3-sphere, and whose complements have trivial fundamental group. We show that if two such surfaces are homologous then they are topologically ambiently isotopic rel. boundary.

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@article{arxiv.2607.15165,
  title  = {Knotted surfaces with simply-connected complements},
  author = {Audrick Pyronneau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.15165},
  year   = {2026}
}

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19 pages