Arnold's filtered invariants conjecture for spherical curves

Let J++2StJ^+ + 2 St be the Arnold invariant of spherical curves, and let CC be an immersion S1S2S^1 \to S^2. For each i0i\geq 0, let EiE_i be an invariant of such immersions.

Arnold's conjecture. There exists a sequence of invariants {Ei}i0\{E_i\}_{i\geq 0} with E0=J++2StE_0=J^+ + 2 St such that

{CE0(C)=0}{CE1(C)=0}{CE2(C)=0}.\{C\mid E_0(C)=0\}\supset \{C\mid E_1(C)=0\}\supset \{C\mid E_2(C)=0\}\supset\cdots.

This conjecture seeks a filtered sequence of invariants for plane or spherical curves, analogous to the filtration by Vassiliev-type invariants and extending Arnold's invariant. The supplied source does not state whether the conjecture has been resolved.

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Noboru Ito and Yusuke Takimura, “Any nontrivial knot projection with no triple chords has a monogon or a bigon”, arXiv:2108.10133 (2021).

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