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