The genus-2 mutation invariance conjecture for tau invariants

Let KS3K\subset S^3 be a knot, and let Σ\Sigma be a genus-2 surface in its complement. Genus-2 mutation is the operation of cutting S3S^3 open along Σ\Sigma and regluing the pieces by the hyperelliptic involution of Σ\Sigma; the resulting knot is called a genus-2 mutant. Let τ\tau^\sharp be the framed-instanton concordance homomorphism and let τ\tau be the Heegaard Floer concordance invariant.

Genus-2 mutation invariance conjecture. The values of τ\tau^\sharp and τ\tau are preserved by genus-2 mutation.

The source notes that preservation of τ\tau 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 τ\tau^\sharp; 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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