Linking number obstructions to satellite homomorphisms
Abstract
We prove that satellite operations that satisfy a certain positivity condition and have winding number other than one are not homomorphisms. The argument uses the d-invariants of branched covers. In the process, we prove a technical result relating d-invariants and the Torelli group which may be of independent interest.
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