Reid–Walsh conjecture on knot complements in a commensurability class

Let MM be a hyperbolic knot complement in S3\mathbb{S}^3. Two finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds are commensurable when they share a common finite-degree cover; the commensurability class of MM is the collection of manifolds commensurable with it. Reid–Walsh's conjecture. The commensurability class of MM contains at most three knot complements. The conjecture relates the search for hidden symmetries to the distribution of knot complements among commensurability classes. The source gives no resolution, so it remains open.

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Primary source

Jason DeBlois, Arshia Gharagozlou and Neil R Hoffman, “Knot complements decomposing into prisms”, arXiv:2507.01263 (2026).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1610.02410, arXiv:1008.1034, arXiv:0905.1672, arXiv:0804.0112.

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