The Knot Complement Conjecture
The Knot Complement Conjecture
Let be a knot in a closed connected orientable --manifold , with exterior irreducible and not homeomorphic to the solid torus. A slope is an isotopy class of unoriented essential simple closed curves on ; write for the result of Dehn surgery along , and let the meridian of be the slope bounding a disk in . Two slopes are equivalent if a homeomorphism of the knot exterior takes one to the other. Knot complement conjecture. If there is a non-trivial slope such that there is an orientation-preserving homeomorphism
then is equivalent to the meridian of . This is the surgery formulation of the claim that knots satisfying the stated hypotheses are determined by their complements. The supplied source notes that knots in are determined by their complements, while giving no resolution of the conjecture in the generality stated.
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Primary source
Fyodor Gainullin, “Heegaard Floer homology and knots determined by their complements”, arXiv:1504.06180 (2017).
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