The Cochran–Harvey–Leidy fractal conjecture for knot concordance groups

Let Cdiff\mathcal{C}^\mathrm{diff} and Ctop\mathcal{C}^\mathrm{top} denote the smooth and topological knot concordance groups. A set has a fractal structure if it admits self-similarities at arbitrarily small scales. Cochran–Harvey–Leidy fractal conjecture. The knot concordance groups have the structure of a fractal. Injective satellite operators and robust doubling operators provide evidence for such self-similarities, but a suitable metric and a complete understanding of the structure remain open.

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Arunima Ray, “Slice knots and knot concordance”, arXiv:2311.12168 (2023).

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