Orphaned Equivariant h-Cobordism Conjecture Label

Definitions and mathematical statement

The supplied record contains only the fragment

conjecture. Moduli spaces of equivariant h-cobordisms Mona Merling (joint work with Tom Gooodwillie, Kiyoshi Igusa, and Cary Malkiewich)

The spelling of the names is reproduced as supplied. This fragment identifies a talk topic and collaborators but supplies no mathematical proposition. In particular, it gives no acting group, category of spaces or manifolds, definition of the moduli spaces, hypotheses, boundary conditions, quantifiers, or asserted conclusion. Consequently, no precise conjecture or associated mathematical definitions can be recovered from this record without adding unsupported information.

The registry labels the statement as unrecoverable and separately assigns the status open. Its supplied verification note says that the official report confirms an orphaned heading and conjecture label, with complete problems preserved in following records; those records are not identified or included here. These are supplied curation claims, not independent verification or a mathematical assertion that a specified conjecture remains open.

Short English statement

This entry preserves an orphaned conjecture label associated with a talk on moduli spaces of equivariant $h$-cobordisms. The supplied text does not state a conjecture, so a precise mathematical statement cannot be reconstructed. The supplied open status does not establish the status of any identifiable proposition.

Sources

• Local UnsolvedMath registry, data/unsolvedmath/problems.json, permanent ID $30005672$, source code catalogue entry; title: Orphaned Equivariant h-Cobordism Conjecture Label. Collection: Oberwolfach Reports Open Problems.
• Supplied report citation: Homotopy Theory (2024), Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2023/34, pp. 1893--1952. Supplied source and background link: https://doi.org/10.4171/owr/2023/34. The background describes these reports as documenting mathematical workshops and their open-problem discussions.
• Supplied attribution in the extracted fragment: Mona Merling, joint work with Tom Gooodwillie, Kiyoshi Igusa, and Cary Malkiewich. No proposer is separately identified. The registry gives proposed year $2023$; the supplied report title gives $2024$. Their relationship is unresolved here.
• Supplied literature source, labelled "OWR Homotopy Theory report": https://doi.org/10.4171/OWR/2023/34. Literature checked at: 2026-08-22. This exact date records supplied dated curation, not independently verified source consultation. The supplied assessment says that the extraction is only the word "conjecture" attached to a talk title and contains no mathematical proposition that can be assessed. Its status label is open; the background explicitly requires independent verification of time-sensitive status and cited claims.
• Supplied statement-verification note: the official report confirms that the extraction is only an orphaned heading and conjecture label, and complete problems are preserved in following records. This note is reproduced as supplied evidence; no independent source visit is claimed.