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This paper presents evidence supporting the surprising conjecture that in thetopological category the slice genus of a satellite knot $P(K)$ is boundedabove by the sum of the slice genera of $K$ and $P(U)$. Our main resultestablishes this conjecture for a variant of the topological slice genus, the$\mathbb{Z}$-slice genus. As an application, we show that the $(n,1)$-cable ofany 3-genus 1 knot (e.g. the figure 8 or trefoil knot) has topological slicegenus at most 1. Further, we show that the lower bounds on the slice genuscoming from the Tristram-Levine and Casson-Gordon signatures cannot be used todisprove the conjecture. Notably, the conjectured upper bound does not involvethe algebraic winding number of the pattern $P$. This stands in stark contrastwith the smooth category, where for example there are many genus 1 knots whose$(n,1)$-cables have arbitrarily large smooth 4-genera.

A note on the topological slice genus of satellite knots