Conjecture that Koschorke's and Milnor-type invariants agree for Brunnian embedded links

Let ff be a \b7\b7-Brunnian embedded link with components indexed by \b7\b7, and let \b7\b7 be a permutation of the first d1d-1 component indices. Write \b7\b7(f)\b7_\b7(f) for Koschorke's invariant and \b7(\b7(1),,\b7(d1),d)\b7(\b7(1),\ldots,\b7(d-1),d) for the invariant introduced in the paper.

Invariant agreement conjecture. For \b7\b7-Brunnian embedded links, Koschorke's \b7\b7(f)\b7_\b7(f) coincides up to sign with \b7(\b7(1),,\b7(d1),d)\b7(\b7(1),\ldots,\b7(d-1),d).

The agreement is known in particular when all components have codimension at least 33, and in the case m=3m=3, where both invariants coincide, up to a sign depending only on dd, with Milnor's classical invariants. The conjecture concerns the remaining cases, especially links involving codimension-22 components, where these invariants are not known to be complete link-homotopy invariants.

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Rafał Komendarczyk, Robin Koytcheff and Fedor Manin, “Milnor invariants and thickness of spherical links”, arXiv:2509.02883 (2025).

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