Drinfel'd–Grothendieck conjecture on the profinite Grothendieck–Teichmüller tower

Let GT^\widehat{\operatorname{GT}} be the profinite Grothendieck–Teichmüller group, defined using the first two levels of the genus-zero stage of the profinite Grothendieck–Teichmüller tower, and let T^out\hat{\mathfrak T}^{\mathrm{out}} denote that full tower with outer continuous homomorphisms as maps. Drinfel'd–Grothendieck conjecture. The natural action of GT^\widehat{\operatorname{GT}} on the full tower induces an isomorphism

GT^Aut(T^out).\widehat{\operatorname{GT}}\cong\operatorname{Aut}(\hat{\mathfrak T}^{\mathrm{out}}).

Drinfel'd, following Grothendieck's Esquisse d'un Programme, speculated that the group defined from the first two genus-zero levels acts on the full tower in this way. The supplied text gives no resolution status.

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Marco Boggi, “Automorphisms of profinite mapping class groups”, arXiv:2011.15075 (2026).

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