The free-algebra pullback conjecture for elementary embeddings

Let k1,,knk_1,\ldots,k_n be elementary embeddings in Eλ\mathcal{E}_{\lambda} such that Ak1,,kn\mathcal{A}_{k_1,\ldots,k_n} is free, and let ,pAk1,,kn\ell,p\in\mathcal{A}_{k_1,\ldots,k_n}. The pullback 1p\ell^{-1}p is the embedding whose composition with \ell is pp, when such an embedding exists. Free-algebra pullback conjecture. If 1p\ell^{-1}p exists, then

1pAk1,,kn.\ell^{-1}p\in\mathcal{A}_{k_1,\ldots,k_n}.

The conjecture generalizes the n=1n=1 case proved for the algebras considered in Theorem above; it asserts that pullbacks between elements of a free algebra remain inside that algebra whenever they exist. Its status is not established in the supplied text.

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Scott Cramer, Meng-Che "Turbo" Ho, Sheila K. Miller Edwards and Nam Trang, “Free Left Distributive Algebras and a Canonical Extension”, arXiv:2604.08768 (2026).

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