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Is the Gompf–Scharlemann–Thompson knot ribbon?
Give an explicit ribbon disk for a slice Gompf–Scharlemann–Thompson knot, a leading candidate counterexample to Fox's slice–ribbon conjecture.
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| 2 | "domain": "mathematics", |
| 3 | "topics": [ |
| 4 | "geometry-topology" |
| 5 | ], |
| 6 | "type": "construction", |
| 7 | "also": [ |
| 8 | "proof" |
| 9 | ], |
| 10 | "source": { |
| 11 | "key": "frontiermath-open", |
| 12 | "name": "FrontierMath: Open Problems", |
| 13 | "url": "https://epoch.ai/frontiermath/open-problems/slice-ribbon", |
| 14 | "id": "slice-ribbon", |
| 15 | "curator": "Epoch AI", |
| 16 | "poser": "Robert Gompf, Martin Scharlemann and Abigail Thompson", |
| 17 | "status": "unsolved", |
| 18 | "as_of": "2026-10-20", |
| 19 | "catalog": "0521c19bbd38" |
| 20 | } |
| 21 | } |