The stabilized inscribed-square conjecture for immersed plane curves

Let TT be an immersed curve in the plane, and let StSt, J+J^+, and JJ^- denote its associated invariants. An inscribed square of a curve is a square whose vertices lie on the curve. Inscribed-square conjecture. There is a positive integer mm such that, for every nmn\geq m, there is an immersed curve TnT_n with the same values of StSt, J+J^+, and JJ^- as TT, such that TnT_n has exactly nn inscribed squares. Moreover, there is an integer kk, independent of nn, such that all but kk of the inscribed squares of TnT_n have their vertices appearing in the same order as on TnT_n. The conjecture proposes that the number of inscribed squares can be made arbitrarily large while preserving these invariants, with all but uniformly boundedly many squares respecting the curve's cyclic order.

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Strashimir G. Popvassilev, “On the number of inscribed squares of a simple closed curve in the plane”, arXiv:0810.4806 (2008).

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