The smooth framed-isotopy faithfulness conjecture for tame tangles

A smooth mm-tame tangle is a tame smooth embedding f:WInf:W\to\mathbb{I}^n of an mm-manifold. A smoothly framed isotopic pair consists of tangles related by a framed isotopy that is smooth as a tame tangle.

Smooth framed isotopy of tame smooth tangles implies diffeomorphism. Given smooth mm-tame tangles f:WInf:W\to\mathbb{I}^n and f:WInf':W'\to\mathbb{I}^n, if ff and ff' are smoothly framed isotopic, then WW and WW' are diffeomorphic.

The PL analogue is stated to be true. The source also suggests that, in the stable range n>2m+1n>2m+1, the converse should hold, but that additional expectation is not part of this conjecture's assertion.

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Christoph Dorn and Christopher L. Douglas, “Manifold diagrams and tame tangles”, arXiv:2208.13758 (2022).

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