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Strategies towards a disproof of the general Andrews-Curtis conjecture. (English) Zbl 1116.57004

The authors give a summary on several approaches to the general Andrews-Curtis conjecture, which asks whether simply \(h\)-equivalent 2-complexes \(K_1\), \(K_2\) can be transformed into each other using only cells up to dimension 3.

MSC:

57M20 Two-dimensional complexes (manifolds) (MSC2010)
57Q10 Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc.
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