Cochran–Orr–Teichner filtration rank and nontriviality conjecture

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Let Fn\mathcal F_n and Fn.5\mathcal F_{n.5} denote the successive terms of the Cochran–Orr–Teichner filtration of the smooth knot concordance group, indexed by n∈N0n\in\mathbb N_0. Cochran–Orr–Teichner filtration conjecture. For any n∈N0n\in\mathbb N_0, the quotient groups

Fn/Fn.5\mathcal F_n/\mathcal F_{n.5}

have infinite rank. Moreover, for n>0n>0, the groups

Fn.5/Fn+1\mathcal F_{n.5}/\mathcal F_{n+1}

are nontrivial. These assertions describe the main remaining questions about the structure of the filtrations; the stated status is open.

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Tim D. Cochran and Peter Teichner, “Knot concordance and von Neumann ρ-invariants”, arXiv:math/0411057 (2004).

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