English

Proposed Property 2R counterexamples classified

Geometric Topology 2015-09-15 v3

Abstract

Earlier work with Robert Gompf and Abigail Thompson classified, via a natural slope indexed by the rationals, all two-component links which contain the square knot and from which (S1×S2)#(S1×S2)(S^1 \times S^2) \# (S^1 \times S^2) can be obtained by surgery. It was argued that a certain family LnL_n of such links probably contradict the Generalized Property R Conjecture. Left unresolved was how the family LnL_n fits into the classification scheme. This question is resolved here, in part by giving varied perspectives and more detail on the construction of the LnL_n.

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@article{arxiv.1208.1299,
  title  = {Proposed Property 2R counterexamples classified},
  author = {Martin Scharlemann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.1299},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Third version contains a rewritten introduction and an additional section discussing the torus along which Gompf's twisting is done

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