The universal rank-expansion conjecture for winding-zero satellite operators

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Let C\mathcal{C} be the smooth knot concordance group. A satellite operator PP is rank-expanding along {nK}n∈Z\{nK\}_{n\in\mathbb{Z}} if {nK}n∈Z\{nK\}_{n\in\mathbb{Z}} is a rank-one subgroup of C\mathcal{C} and {P(nK)}n∈Z\{P(nK)\}_{n\in\mathbb{Z}} has infinite rank. Universal rank-expansion conjecture. Any non-constant winding number zero satellite operator is rank-expanding along every rank-one subgroup {nK}n∈Z\{nK\}_{n\in\mathbb{Z}}. This would strengthen the preceding existence conjecture by requiring rank expansion for every nontorsion knot KK. The paper proves rank expansion for many patterns and companion families, but this universal assertion remains open.

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Irving Dai, Matthew Hedden, Abhishek Mallick and Matthew Stoffregen, “Rank-expanding satellites, Whitehead doubles, and Heegaard Floer homology”, arXiv:2209.07512 (2022).

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