Cazassus–Herald–Kirk–Kotelskiy conjecture on bounding cochains

Let TT be a 2-tangle, let Rπ(T)R_\pi(T) be its holonomy-perturbed traceless character variety, and let PP^* be the pillowcase with its singular points removed. A bounding cochain is an element bCF(Rπ(T),Rπ(T))b\in CF(R_\pi(T),R_\pi(T)) satisfying the Maurer–Cartan equation. Cazassus–Herald–Kirk–Kotelskiy conjecture. There is an assignment of a bounding cochain bb to every such TT and Rπ(T)PR_\pi(T)\looparrowright P^* such that (Rπ(T),b)(R_\pi(T),b) is a well-defined tangle invariant in the wrapped Fukaya category of PP^*; the assignment extends to earring-modified tangles, producing (Rπ(T),b)(R^\natural_\pi(T),b); and, for every decomposition

(S3,L)=(D3,T1)(S2,4)(D3,T2),(S^3,L)=(D^3,T_1)\cup_{(S^2,4)}(D^3,T_2),

the resulting Lagrangian Floer homology satisfies

HF((Rπ(T1),b1),(Rπ(T2),b2))I(L).HF((R_\pi(T_1),b_1),(R^\natural_\pi(T_2),b_2))\cong I^\natural(L).

This conjecture proposes bounding-cochain data as the missing structure needed for a tangle invariant whose Floer homology recovers reduced singular instanton homology; the source does not state a resolution.

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Kai Smith, “Perturbed Traceless SU(2) Character Varieties of Tangle Sums”, arXiv:2412.06066 (2024).

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