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.
References
Primary source
Aliakbar Daemi and Tye Lidman, “The knot complement problem for null-homotopic knots”, arXiv:2511.05472 (2025).
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