Cha's primary decomposition conjecture for the topologically slice concordance group
Cha's primary decomposition conjecture for the topologically slice concordance group
Let be the set of irreducible polynomials satisfying , and let
Let be the subgroup of the smooth knot concordance group consisting of topologically slice knots. For , let be the subgroup generated by topologically slice knots whose Alexander polynomial is a product of copies of , and let be the subgroup generated by topologically slice knots with Alexander polynomial one. Define
Cha's primary decomposition conjecture. The canonical homomorphisms induce an isomorphism
This conjecture asserts that, after quotienting by the subgroup generated by Alexander-polynomial-one knots, the topologically slice concordance group decomposes into independent primary summands indexed by the symmetric Alexander polynomials in . The statement is presented here without evidence of a resolution.
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Primary source
Charles Livingston, “Primary decompositions of knot concordance”, arXiv:1911.08280 (2019).
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