Equality characterizations for the slice Cromwell inequality of homogeneous links
Equality characterizations for the slice Cromwell inequality of homogeneous links
Let be a homogeneous link. The slice Cromwell equality conjectures. (i) The slice Cromwell inequality
is an equality if and only if is positive. (ii) For a homogeneous diagram of , the inequality
is an equality if and only if is a positive diagram. The slice Cromwell inequality extends Cromwell's inequality from homogeneous links to the smooth four-ball Euler characteristic, while these conjectures seek to characterize positivity through equality in the link-level and diagram-level bounds. The provided source does not indicate whether either conjecture has been resolved.
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Tetsuya Ito, “A slice Cromwell inequality of homogeneous links”, arXiv:2504.13491 (2025).
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