Essential quadrisecants conjecture for the figure-8 and 525_2 knots

A quadrisecant is a line meeting a knot in four points. A quadrisecant is essential when the secants joining consecutive points along the knot are essential according to the arcs between their endpoints. A flipped quadrisecant and a simple quadrisecant are the corresponding geometric types of quadrisecant described in the source. The figure-8 knot is the knot 414_1, and 525_2 denotes the standard knot with crossing number five.

Essential quadrisecants conjecture. The figure-8 knot has at least one essential flipped quadrisecant, and the 525_2 knot has at least one essential simple quadrisecant.

This conjecture is motivated by examples found for low-crossing knots and is stated for knots of finite total curvature. The source gives no resolution.

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Primary source

Elizabeth Denne, “Quadrisecants and essential secants of knots: with applications to the geometry of knots”, arXiv:1608.02608 (2016).

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