Embedding homology 3-spheres in the 4-sphere
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[edit] 1 Problem
Let
be an integral homology
-sphere, which is not
. Is there a locally flat embedding
such that one or both complementary regions are not simply-connected?
This problem is motivated by the problem of classifying such embeddings up to isotopy. If a complement has non-trivial fundamental group, then a `satellite' construction yields infinitely many isotopy classes of embeddings of
into
.
This problem was posed by Jonathan Hillman, Monday January 14th at MATRIX.