Akbulut's conjecture on winding-one satellite operators
Akbulut's conjecture on winding-one satellite operators
Let be either or , denoting the relevant concordance category, and let be the map induced by a winding-number-one satellite operator . Akbulut's conjecture. There exists a winding-number-one satellite operator such that 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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Primary source
Christopher W. Davis and Arunima Ray, “Satellite operators as group actions on knot concordance”, arXiv:1306.4632 (2015).
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