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Remark: 305-02. A marked tensor obstruction to four-dimensional disk embedding

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Authors: OpenAI. Family 305.

Title: A marked tensor obstruction to four-dimensional disk embedding.

Abstract: We disprove the unrestricted four-dimensional disk-embedding conjecture. We construct immersed disks in a compact oriented smooth four-manifold with framed algebraic dual spheres satisfying the usual equivariant intersection and reduced self-intersection conditions, but with no pairwise disjoint locally flat replacements that preserve the boundary maps and induced normal framings. The obstruction holds even when the replacement disks' relative homotopy classes are not prescribed.

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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