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Remark: 305-01. A boundary-only obstruction to four-dimensional disk embedding

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Authors: OpenAI. Family 305.

Title: A boundary-only obstruction to four-dimensional disk embedding.

Abstract: We disprove the four-dimensional disc embedding conjecture without a fundamental-group hypothesis, even when no homotopy classes or output framings are prescribed. We construct a compact oriented smooth four-manifold containing finitely many disc maps with framed algebraic dual spheres whose boundary circles bound no disjoint locally flat discs. Consequently, the free group on two generators is not good in the sense of Freedman–Quinn, and neither is any group containing it as a subgroup.

This abstract is a catalogue record. It is not a verification and not a premise. It does not close O.1. O.1 stays NOT_CLOSED. No quantum coefficient is admitted. No compilation is asserted.

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