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Unknotting 3-balls in the 5-ball

Geometric Topology 2024-12-11 v3

Abstract

The purpose of this note is to answer affirmatively a question posed by both Gay, and Hughes, Kim and Miller as to whether every 33--ball smoothly embedded in the 44--sphere becomes isotopic relative to the bounding 2-sphere when pushed into the 5-ball.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2206.11243,
  title  = {Unknotting 3-balls in the 5-ball},
  author = {Daniel Hartman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.11243},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures,

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