The wheeling conjecture for Chinese-character diagram products

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Let B′{\mathcal B}' be the completed graded space of Chinese characters, equipped with the disjoint-union product and a second product transported from the diagram algebra via the isomorphism χ\chi. Let Ω\Omega be the wheels series and let Ω^:B′→B′\hat{\Omega}:{\mathcal B}'\to{\mathcal B}' be the wheeling operator obtained by gluing all legs of the Chinese characters occurring in Ω\Omega to legs of an input diagram. Denote the two products by \mathaccent⋅∪\mathaccent\cdot\cup and ×\times, respectively.

Wheeling conjecture. Wheeling intertwines the two products on Chinese characters; more precisely,

Ω^:(B′,\mathaccent⋅∪)→(B′,×)\hat{\Omega}:({\mathcal B}',\mathaccent\cdot\cup)\to({\mathcal B}',\times)

is an algebra isomorphism.

The conjecture is presented as a diagrammatic analogue of the Duflo isomorphism and is attributed in the source to an independent conjecture of Deligne. The supplied text does not establish whether it has been resolved.

References

Primary source

Dror Bar-Natan, Stavros Garoufalidis, Lev Rozansky and Dylan P. Thurston, “Wheels, Wheeling, and the Kontsevich Integral of the Unknot”, arXiv:q-alg/9703025 (1998).

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