Eventual uniqueness of standard neighborhoods for transverse knot representatives

Fix a smooth knot type KK. A transverse representative TT of KK has a standard neighborhood, whose boundary has a slope, and standard neighborhoods are considered up to contact isotopy. Eventual neighborhood uniqueness conjecture. There is an integer nn such that, whenever TT is a transverse representative of KK with \self(T)<n\self(T)<n, any standard neighborhood of TT is determined up to contact isotopy by its boundary slope. This conjecture proposes eventual uniqueness among sufficiently low-self-linking transverse representatives of each fixed knot type; its general validity remains open.

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John B. Etnyre, “Neighborhoods of transverse knots and destabilizations”, arXiv:2512.15651 (2026).

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