Nonexistence of prime nonsplit two-component links with full symmetry

Let LL be a prime, nonsplit two-component link, and let Σ(L)\Sigma(L) denote its intrinsic symmetry group. The link has full symmetry when Σ(L)=Γ2\Sigma(L)=\Gamma_2, where Γ2\Gamma_2 is the full symmetry group for two-component links. The full-symmetry nonexistence conjecture. There does not exist a prime, nonsplit two-component link LL with full symmetry:

Σ(L)=Γ2.\Sigma(L)=\Gamma_2.

The source notes that no nonsplit examples with full symmetry were known, and that such a link would have linking number zero, nonalternating structure, and components of the same knot type, with that knot type itself possessing full symmetry.

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Jason Cantarella, James Cornish, Matt Mastin and Jason Parsley, “The 27 possible intrinsic symmetry groups of two-component links”, arXiv:1201.2722 (2012).

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