Hedden's conjecture on homomorphisms induced by satellite patterns
Hedden's conjecture on homomorphisms induced by satellite patterns
A pattern induces a map on the knot concordance group, given by . This map is a homomorphism when is concordant to for all knots . Hedden's conjecture. If is a homomorphism, then it is one of the maps
These are the three evident homomorphisms induced by satelliting; the conjecture asserts that no other satellite pattern induces a homomorphism of the concordance group.
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Primary source
Alex Eldridge, “The Ozsváth-Szabó tau-invariant of braided satellites”, arXiv:2606.10351 (2026).
Additional references
5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2402.04629, arXiv:2308.06890, arXiv:2207.14198, arXiv:1912.07914.
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