The knot complement conjecture for knots in closed oriented 3-manifolds
The knot complement conjecture for knots in closed oriented 3-manifolds
Let be a closed oriented 3-manifold, and let and be knots in . Their exteriors are the manifolds obtained by deleting open tubular neighborhoods of the knots; they are orientation-preservingly homeomorphic when there is an orientation-preserving homeomorphism between them.
Knot complement conjecture. If and have orientation-preservingly homeomorphic exteriors, then there exists an orientation-preserving homeomorphism of mapping to .
This is the proposed extension of the Knot Complement Theorem from to arbitrary closed oriented 3-manifolds. The paper notes that it is known in some settings, including certain lens spaces and circle bundles over surfaces, but the general statement remains open.
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Primary source
Aliakbar Daemi and Tye Lidman, “The knot complement problem for null-homotopic knots”, arXiv:2511.05472 (2025).
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