Birbrair–Gabrielov conjecture on bi-Lipschitz equivalence of LNE surface germs

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Let (X0,0)(X_0,0) and (X1,0)(X_1,0) be two LNE semialgebraic surface germs. They are ambient topologically equivalent if there is an ambient homeomorphism taking one germ to the other, and outer bi-Lipschitz equivalent if such an ambient map can be chosen bi-Lipschitz for the outer metric.

Birbrair–Gabrielov conjecture. If (X0,0)(X_0,0) and (X1,0)(X_1,0) are ambient topologically equivalent and outer bi-Lipschitz equivalent, then X0X_0 and X1X_1 are ambient bi-Lipschitz equivalent.

The conjecture is false: the paper's construction of LNE Hölder triangles in R4\mathbb R^4 with microknots gives a negative answer, producing examples that satisfy the stated topological and outer bi-Lipschitz equivalences but are not ambient bi-Lipschitz equivalent.

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Lev Birbrair, Maciej Denkowski, Davi Lopes Medeiros and José Edson Sampaio, “Universality theorem for LNE Hölder triangles”, arXiv:2410.09532 (2024).

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