The genus-2 mutation invariance conjecture for tau invariants
The genus-2 mutation invariance conjecture for tau invariants
Let be a knot, and let be a genus-2 surface in its complement. Genus-2 mutation is the operation of cutting open along and regluing the pieces by the hyperelliptic involution of ; the resulting knot is called a genus-2 mutant. Let be the framed-instanton concordance homomorphism and let be the Heegaard Floer concordance invariant.
Genus-2 mutation invariance conjecture. The values of and are preserved by genus-2 mutation.
The source notes that preservation of under Conway mutation is open in general, and that the corresponding question for arbitrary genus-2 mutation is less clear. The same issue applies to ; no resolution is given here.
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John A. Baldwin and Steven Sivek, “Framed instanton homology and concordance”, arXiv:2004.08699 (2021).
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