Satellites of infinite rank in the smooth concordance group

Hedden, Matthew; Pinzón-Caicedo, Juanita

doi:10.1007/s00222-020-01026-w

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Satellites of infinite rank in the smooth concordance group

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Pinzón-Caicedo, Juanita
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Hedden, M., & Pinzón-Caicedo, J. (2021). Satellites of infinite rank in the smooth concordance group. Inventiones Mathematicae, 225(1), 131-157. doi:10.1007/s00222-020-01026-w.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-D9CC-F

Abstract

We conjecture that satellite operations are either constant or have infinite rank in the concordance group. We reduce this to the difficult case of winding number zero satellites, and use $SO(3)$ gauge theory to provide a general criterion sufficient for the image of a satellite operation to generate an infinite rank subgroup of the smooth concordance group $\mathcal{C}$. Our criterion applies widely; notably to many unknotted patterns for which the corresponding operators on the topological concordance group are zero. We raise some questions and conjectures regarding satellite operators and their interaction with concordance.