The easier restricted-tile conjecture for hexagonal mosaics
For a knot, let a hexagonal -mosaic be a knot diagram assembled on the hexagonal -mosaic arrangement. The interior tiles are the tiles away from the boundary. The four three-crossing tiles are tiles 23, 24, 25, and 26, and the two three-arc tiles with no crossings are tiles 16 and 17. Easier conjecture. Every knot can be created as a hexagonal -mosaic for some , while restricting the interior tiles to these four three-crossing tiles and these two three-arc, crossing-free tiles. The source motivates this restriction using triple-crossing projections and presents it as an open computationally oriented strengthening of the general mosaic realization result.
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Primary source
Hugh Howards, Jiong Li, Xiaotian Liu and Anna Paulec, “An infinite family of knots whose hexagonal mosaic number is only realized in non-reduced projections”, arXiv:1912.03697 (2026).
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