Higher Whitehead torsion and Reidemeister trace compatibility conjecture
Higher Whitehead torsion and Reidemeister trace compatibility conjecture
Let be a smooth closed manifold, let be its stable -cobordism space, and consider the Dennis trace map on , Waldhausen's splitting map, the higher Reidemeister trace , and the equivalence
Higher Whitehead torsion and Reidemeister trace compatibility conjecture. The following diagram commutes up to natural homotopy:
where the top horizontal map is given by Waldhausen's splitting theorem and the bottom horizontal map is induced by the displayed equivalence. This conjecture relates higher Whitehead torsion, the Dennis trace, and higher Reidemeister traces. The source provides no resolution status, so the conjecture is recorded as open.
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Primary source
Lea Kenigsberg and Noah Porcelli, “Obstructions to homotopy invariance of loop coproduct via parametrised fixed-point theory”, arXiv:2407.13662 (2026).
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