Complement determination conjecture for Brunnian theta-curves

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Let Γ1\Gamma_1 and Γ2\Gamma_2 be Brunnian θ\theta-curves, meaning spatial θ\theta-curves in S3S^3 whose proper subgraphs are unknotted. Suppose their complements S3Γ1S^3\setminus\Gamma_1 and S3Γ2S^3\setminus\Gamma_2 are homeomorphic. Complement determination conjecture. There exists a homeomorphism of S3S^3 to itself taking Γ1\Gamma_1 to Γ2\Gamma_2. This predicts that a Brunnian θ\theta-curve is determined up to equivalence by its complement; its motivation is the uniqueness of Brunnian spines for genus 22 handlebody knots, while the conjecture itself remains open.

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Primary source

Luis Celso Chan Palomo and Scott A. Taylor, “Hyperbolic Brunnian Theta Curves”, arXiv:2512.14533 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1902.01719.

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