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Unknotting 3-balls in the 5-ball

arXiv:2206.11243

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 --ball smoothly embedded in the --sphere becomes isotopic relative to the bounding 2-sphere when pushed into the 5-ball.

5 pages, 2 figures,

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