The Bottman–Wehrheim immersed composition conjecture

Let (L,b)(\underline{L},{\bf b}) be a generalized immersed Lagrangian correspondence from M0M_0 to Mk=M0M_k=M_0, equipped with bounding cochains. Suppose that for some ii, L(i1)iL_{(i-1)i} and Li(i+1)L_{i(i+1)} can be composed, and let (L,b)(\underline{L}',{\bf b}') be obtained by replacing these two consecutive correspondences with

(L(i1)iLi(i+1),8(b(i1)i,bi(i+1))).\bigl(L_{(i-1)i}\circ L_{i(i+1)},8(b_{(i-1)i},b_{i(i+1)})\bigr).

Bottman–Wehrheim conjecture. There is an isomorphism

HF(L,b)HF(L,b).\mathit{HF}(\underline{L},{\bf b})\cong\mathit{HF}(\underline{L}',{\bf b}').

This is the proposed extension of the embedded quilted Floer composition theorem to immersed correspondences; figure-eight bubbling and the associated bounding cochain are precisely the analytic obstacles, so the assertion remains open in the context described.

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Guillem Cazassus, Christopher M. Herald, Paul Kirk and Artem Kotelskiy, “The correspondence induced on the pillowcase by the earring tangle”, arXiv:2010.04320 (2022).

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