The harder restricted-tile conjecture for hexagonal mosaics

For a knot, let a hexagonal rr-mosaic be a knot diagram assembled on the hexagonal rr-mosaic arrangement, and let the interior tiles be the tiles away from the boundary. The four three-crossing tiles are tiles 23, 24, 25, and 26. Harder conjecture. Every knot can be created as a hexagonal rr-mosaic for some rr, while restricting the interior tiles to only these four three-crossing tiles. This is presented as a stronger open variant of the easier restricted-tile conjecture, removing the two crossing-free tile types.

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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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