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Smooth unknotting conjecture in dimension four and search for essence of mathematics

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16340017
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Geometry
Research InstitutionHiroshima University

Principal Investigator

MATUMOTO Takao  Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Professor (50025467)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KAMADA Seiichi  Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Professor (60254380)
MATSUMOTO Yukio  Gakushuin University, Faculty of Science, Professor (20011637)
UENO Kenji  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Science, Professor (40011655)
WAKAKI Hirofumi  Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Professor (90210856)
NAGAI Toshitaka  Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Professor (40112172)
河内 明夫  大阪市立大学, 大学院理学研究科, 教授 (00112524)
松田 浩  広島大学, 大学院・理学研究科, 助手 (70372703)
榎本 彦衛  広島大学, 大学院・理学研究科, 教授 (00011669)
松本 眞  広島大学, 大学院・理学研究科, 教授 (70231602)
盛田 健彦  広島大学, 大学院・理学研究科, 教授 (00192782)
Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2007
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
Budget Amount *help
¥17,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥16,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥4,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥4,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,300,000)
KeywordsTopologv / Knot / Braid / Chart description / Cusp / 1-parameter family / Elementary method / Historical search / 2次元結び目 / 2次元ブレイド / マルコフ型定理 / チャート表示の変形 / 解け予想 / 初等的手法 / 変形 / カンドル / 初等的 / 2次元滑らか結び目 / 結び目解け予想 / 安定化
Research Abstract

The necessary and. ant condition for unknotting is well-known except for a smooth 2-knot. The complement has the same homotopy type with a trivial knot is the condition. Our aim is to show that this condition is enough also for the remaining case, using 2-dimensional braid theory The method is quite elementary and we want to find some essence of mathematics in this chance.
1) We have already a one-parameter family of maps with only cusp births and deaths between a given knot with the condition and a trivial knot. 2) Transform this to a one-parameter family of singular 2-braids by extending a method due to Kamada. 3) Find its chart description by applying stabilization if necessary. 4) The height of an intersection point can be modified down until the level a little higher than the related cusp death. 5) This reduces the problem to the case that the number of intersection points is one and the intersection point go down by rotating the other fixed vertices of the chart and then disappear at the cusp. 6) This step can be divided into several simple steps by a word representation due to Kamada-Matsumoto. 7) Each step will be shown that the ends are turned out to be trivial 2-dimensional braids. This is an outline to solve the conjecture.
As for essence of mathematics besides the study by each investigator we studied the history of determinants at the occasion of 300 years after the death of Takakazu Seki.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2007 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2006 Annual Research Report
  • 2005 Annual Research Report
  • 2004 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (30 results)

All 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004

All Journal Article (25 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 4 results) Presentation (2 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Lusternik-Schnirelmann π1-category of non-simply connected simple Lie group2007

    • Author(s)
      Takao Matumoto
    • Journal Title

      Topology and its Applications 154

      Pages: 1931-1941

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report 2007 Final Research Report Summary
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Graphic descriptions of monodromy representations2007

    • Author(s)
      Seiichi Kamada
    • Journal Title

      Topology and its Applications 154

      Pages: 1430-1446

    • NAID

      120000875268

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report 2007 Final Research Report Summary
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Lusternik-Schnirelmann π1 category of non-simply connected simple Lie group2007

    • Author(s)
      Takao, Matumoto, Tetsu, Nishimoto
    • Journal Title

      Topology and its Applications 154(2007)

      Pages: 1931-1941

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Graphic descriptions of monodromy representations2007

    • Author(s)
      Seiichi, Kamada
    • Journal Title

      Topology and its Applications 154

      Pages: 1430-1446

    • NAID

      120000875268

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Braid presentation of virtual knots and welded knots2007

    • Author(s)
      Seiichi Kamada
    • Journal Title

      Osaka Journal of Mathematics 44

      Pages: 441-458

    • NAID

      120004846495

    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Erratum to : "A gap theorem for Lusternik-Schnirelmann 〓pi_1-category"2006

    • Author(s)
      Takao Matumoto
    • Journal Title

      Topology and its Applications 153

      Pages: 1956-1958

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] The braid index is not additive for the connected sum of 2-knots2006

    • Author(s)
      Seiichi Kamada, Shin Sato, Manabu Takabayashi
    • Journal Title

      Transactions of American Mathematical Society 358

      Pages: 5425-5439

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Topological imitations and Reni-Mecchia-Zimmermann's conjecture2006

    • Author(s)
      Akio Kawauchi
    • Journal Title

      Kyungpook Mathematical Journal 46

      Pages: 1-9

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Enumerating prime links by a canonical order2006

    • Author(s)
      Akio Kawauchi
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications 15

      Pages: 217-237

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] The uniform boundedness and threshold for the global existence of the radial solution to a drift-diffusion system2006

    • Author(s)
      Masaki Kurokiba
    • Journal Title

      Communications in Pure and Applied Analysis 5

      Pages: 97-106

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Asymptotic expansion for lack-of-fit test under nonnormality2006

    • Author(s)
      Chieko Matsumoto
    • Journal Title

      Hiroshima Mathematical Journal 36

      Pages: 29-38

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Word representation of cords on a punctured plane2005

    • Author(s)
      Seiichi Kamada
    • Journal Title

      Topology and its Applications 146/147

      Pages: 21-50

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary 2005 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Word representation of cords on a punctured plane2005

    • Author(s)
      Seiichi, Kameda, Yukio, Matsumoto
    • Journal Title

      Topology and its Applications 146/147

      Pages: 21-50

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Chart description and a new proof of the classification theorem of genus one Lefschetz fibrations2005

    • Author(s)
      Takao Matumoto
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Mathematical Society of Japan 57・2

      Pages: 537-555

    • NAID

      10016420091

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 2次元ブレイドと4次元結び目2005

    • Author(s)
      鎌田聖一
    • Journal Title

      数学 57・4

      Pages: 383-399

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Enveloping monoidal quandles2005

    • Author(s)
      Seiichi Kamada
    • Journal Title

      Topology and its Applications 146/147

      Pages: 133-148

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Knot Floer homology of (1,1)-knots2005

    • Author(s)
      Hiroshi Matsuda
    • Journal Title

      Geometriae Dedicata 112

      Pages: 197-214

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Ore-type degree condition for heavy paths in weighted graphs2005

    • Author(s)
      Hikoe Enomoto
    • Journal Title

      Discrete Mathematics 300

      Pages: 100-109

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Chart description and a new proof of the classification theorem of genus one Lefschetz fibrations2005

    • Author(s)
      Kamada, Seiichi, Matumoto, Takao 他
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Mathematical Society of Japan 57(掲載予定)

    • NAID

      10016420091

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Enveloping monoidal quandles2005

    • Author(s)
      Kamada, Seiichi 他
    • Journal Title

      Topology and its Applications 146

      Pages: 133-148

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Word representation of cords on a punctured plane2005

    • Author(s)
      Kamada, Seiichi 他
    • Journal Title

      Topology and its Applications 146

      Pages: 21-50

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Surfaces in 4-space2004

    • Author(s)
      Seiichi, Kamada
    • Journal Title

      Springer-Verlag

      Pages: 1-212

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Small knots in some closed Haken 3-manifolds.2004

    • Author(s)
      Matsuda, Hiroshi
    • Journal Title

      Topology and its Applications 135

      Pages: 149-183

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Partition of a graph into cycles and degenerated cycles2004

    • Author(s)
      Enomoto, Hikoe
    • Journal Title

      Discrete Mathematics 276

      Pages: 177-181

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Construction of K-stable foliations for two-dimensional dispersing billiards without eclipse2004

    • Author(s)
      Morita, Takehiko
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Mathematical Society of Japan 56

      Pages: 803-831

    • NAID

      10013358966

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] On the smooth unknotting conjecture in dimension four2008

    • Author(s)
      松本 堯生
    • Organizer
      4次元トポロジー研究集会
    • Place of Presentation
      広島大学
    • Year and Date
      2008-02-06
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report 2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] on the smooth unknotting comjecture in dimension four2008

    • Author(s)
      Takao, Matuinoto
    • Organizer
      Four-dimensional Topology
    • Place of Presentation
      Hiroshima
    • Year and Date
      2008-02-06
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] トポロジーへの誘い2008

    • Author(s)
      松本 幸夫
    • Total Pages
      139
    • Publisher
      遊星社
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Surfaces in 4-space2004

    • Author(s)
      Seiichi Kamada
    • Total Pages
      212
    • Publisher
      Springer-Verlag
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] Surfaces in 4-space2004

    • Author(s)
      Kameda, Seiichi 他
    • Total Pages
      213
    • Publisher
      Springer-Verlag
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report

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