Topological equivalence conjecture for tangles

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Let t1t_1 and t2t_2 be tame tangles, and let T1T_1 and T2T_2 be arbitrarily chosen mosaic representatives of t1t_1 and t2t_2, respectively. Topological equivalence conjecture for tangles. The tangles t1t_1 and t2t_2 are of the same tangle type if and only if, after applying finitely many tangle injections to place the representatives in a common dimension if necessary, the resulting mosaics are related by a finite sequence of mosaic Reidemeister moves.

This conjecture asserts injectivity of the realization map from mosaic tangle equivalence classes to topological tangle equivalence classes, complementing the stated surjectivity for tame tangles. Its resolution is not supplied in the source.

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Mary Y. Deng, Allison K. Henrich, Sean H. Kawano and Andrew R. Tawfeek, “Taming Wild Knots with Mosaics”, arXiv:2605.14185 (2026).

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