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He-Schramm rigidity conjecture: circle domains with conformally removable boundary are rigid

Claims that every circle domain whose boundary is conformally removable is conformally rigid, with no bound on the number of complementary components and no boundary-extension hypothesis on the map. An intermediate theorem shows that a function continuous across a compact totally disconnected removable set with finite Dirichlet energy off it is globally Sobolev. Together with Rajala's counterexample this settles both directions of the He-Schramm equivalence: removable implies rigid, the converse fails. It does NOT characterize rigid circle domains.

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Occurred: Sep 23, 2026

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Canonical aliases: He-Schramm rigidity conjecture: circle domains with conformally removable boundary are rigid · He-Schramm rigidity (removable implies rigid)

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Lean: solution module (koebe_circle_domain, removability_implies_rigidity)

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Lean comparator statement: circle-domain theorem and removable-boundary rigidity

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Claims that every circle domain whose boundary is conformally removable is conformally rigid, with no bound on the number of complementary components and no boundary-extension hypothesis on the map. An intermediate theorem shows that a function continuous across a compact totally disconnected removable set with finite Dirichlet energy off it is globally Sobolev. Together with Rajala's counterexample this settles both directions of the He-Schramm equivalence: removable implies rigid, the converse fails. It does NOT characterize rigid circle domains. parent of this event

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He and Schramm (1994), rigidity of circle domains with sigma-finite boundary evidence for this event

He-Schramm rigidity conjecture: circle domains with conformally removable boundary are rigid parent of this event

Lean comparator statement: circle-domain theorem and removable-boundary rigidity evidence for this event

Lean: solution module (koebe_circle_domain, removability_implies_rigidity) evidence for this event

Companion: Koebe's Circle-Domain Conjecture (supplies the transfer theorem used here) evidence for this event

He-Schramm rigidity conjecture: circle domains with conformally removable boundary are rigid evidence for this event

VibeMathed record: He-Schramm rigidity conjecture: circle domains with conformally removable boundary are rigid evidence for this event

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