Tiling the 4-ball with knotted surfaces
Geometric Topology
2025-05-15 v1 Metric Geometry
Abstract
We show that for any closed, orientable surface smoothly embedded in , the unit -ball can be tiled using tiles each congruent to a regular neighborhood (with corners) of a surface smoothly isotopic to . This gives a 4-dimensional analog of tilings of the -ball that were constructed in the 90's using congruent knotted tori.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.08976,
title = {Tiling the 4-ball with knotted surfaces},
author = {James Ross and Hannah Schwartz and Andrew Ye},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.08976},
year = {2025}
}
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