The Conway–Kinoshita–Terasaka chord-diagram inequivalence conjecture

Let CC and KTKT be the chord diagrams arising from the planar projections of the Conway and Kinoshita–Terasaka knots, respectively. These are degree-11 chord diagrams with the same intersection graph.

Conway–Kinoshita–Terasaka conjecture. The chord diagrams CC and KTKT are not equivalent.

The proposed pair would provide an explicit counterexample to the intersection graph conjecture at degree 1111. The source reports that the general conjecture fails at degree 1111, although at the point of this statement no explicit inequivalent pair had been exhibited; the supplied status evidence confirms that this conjecture is disproved.

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Primary source

Blake Mellor, “The Intersection Graph Conjecture for Loop Diagrams”, arXiv:math/9807033 (2000).

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