{"collection":"research-topic-provenance:illustrative-minimal-conservative-formal-fragment","authority":"illustrative-unadmitted-fixture","canonical_admission":false,"exact_origins":[{"kind":"illustrative-conjecture-revision","id":"illustrative-chiral-nematic-interaction-net-conjecture@1","relationship":"derived-from"}],"provenance":[],"sources":[{"source_id":"wu-valenzuela-bowick-smalyukh-2024","citation":"Wu, Valenzuela, Bowick, and Smalyukh, Topological Rigidity and Non-Abelian defect junctions in chiral nematic systems with effective biaxial symmetry, arXiv:2410.19293.","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19293","supported_claim":"The work reports Q8-classified non-Abelian defect algebra, topologically rigid bound pairs, and trivalent junctions as building blocks of multi-junction trivalent networks in laboratory chiral nematics, with analysis and modeling.","excluded_inference":"It does not establish interaction-net rewriting."},{"source_id":"hall-tai-kauffman-smalyukh-2026","citation":"Hall, Tai, Kauffman, and Smalyukh, Fusion and fission of particle-like chiral nematic vortex knots, Nature Physics 22, 103–111 (2026), DOI 10.1038/s41567-025-03107-0.","url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-03107-0","supported_claim":"The work reports fusion, fission, and reconnection of chiral-nematic vortex knots under electric pulses, conservation of the reported topological invariant, graph-like intermediate structures, and laser-tweezer guidance of some reconnections.","excluded_inference":"It does not establish a unique pair-indexed interaction-net rule or local rule selection."}],"bounded":true}