Ineffectiveness of homotopical invariants on Nakanishi's 4-move conjecture

Abstract

A $4$-move is a local operation for links consisting in replacing two parallel arcs by four half twists. At the present time, it is not known if this induces an unkotting operation for knots. Studying the Dabkowski-Sahi invariant, we prove that any invariant of knots based on the fundamental group $\pi_1(S^3\setminus K)$ and preserved by $4$-moves is constant among the isotopy classes of knots.