The triple-tangency conjecture for the twice tangent sphere map
Let be a knot and let be its twice tangent sphere map, which assigns to a pair of distinct points of the sphere tangent to at both points, wherever this sphere is defined. Triple-tangency conjecture. If is non-trivial, then is not injective; equivalently, there is a sphere tangent to at three or more points. This predicts a multiple tangency phenomenon for every non-trivial knot, but the source gives no resolution.
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Primary source
R. Langevin and J. O'Hara, “Conformally invariant energies of knots”, arXiv:math/0409396 (2004).
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