Complement determination conjecture for Brunnian theta-curves
Complement determination conjecture for Brunnian theta-curves
Let and be Brunnian -curves, meaning spatial -curves in whose proper subgraphs are unknotted. Suppose their complements and are homeomorphic. Complement determination conjecture. There exists a homeomorphism of to itself taking to . This predicts that a Brunnian -curve is determined up to equivalence by its complement; its motivation is the uniqueness of Brunnian spines for genus 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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