Eventual uniqueness of standard neighborhoods for transverse knot representatives
Eventual uniqueness of standard neighborhoods for transverse knot representatives
Fix a smooth knot type . A transverse representative of 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 such that, whenever is a transverse representative of with , any standard neighborhood of 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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