Akbulut's conjecture on winding-one satellite operators

Let * be either ex\operatorname{ex} or top\operatorname{top}, denoting the relevant concordance category, and let P:CCP:\mathcal{C}_*\to\mathcal{C}_* be the map induced by a winding-number-one satellite operator PP. Akbulut's conjecture. There exists a winding-number-one satellite operator PP such that PP is not surjective. Equivalently, by the proposition stated in the source, there exists a winding-number-one satellite operator whose induced map does not contain the unknot in its image. The conjecture concerns the surjectivity of winding-number-one satellite operators on smooth or topological concordance; the source presents it as open.

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Christopher W. Davis and Arunima Ray, “Satellite operators as group actions on knot concordance”, arXiv:1306.4632 (2015).

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