On the Invalidity of Lemma 2.5 in our previous work on the Powell Conjecture
Geometric Topology
2025-03-26 v3
Abstract
In our previous version entitled ``The reducing sphere complexes for the 3-sphere are connected: a proof of the Powell Conjecture", we claimed to prove the Powell Conjecture, which states that the Goeritz group of the genus- Heegaard splitting of the 3-sphere is finitely generated for any non-negative integer . However, we have found a critical error in the proof of Lemma 2.5 in that version. In this note, we prove that the statement of Lemma 2.5 does not hold in general. This invalidates a key step in our argument and leaves the proof of the Powell Conjecture incomplete. Consequently, the Powell Conjecture remains an open problem in the case of .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2406.13309,
title = {On the Invalidity of Lemma 2.5 in our previous work on the Powell Conjecture},
author = {Sangbum Cho and Yuya Koda and Jung Hoon Lee and Nozomu Sekino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.13309},
year = {2025}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures