Trapezoidal conjecture for Conway polynomial coefficients of two-bridge links
Trapezoidal conjecture for Conway polynomial coefficients of two-bridge links
Let be the degree parameter of the Conway polynomial, let be its leading coefficient, and let denote the Fibonacci-basis polynomials. Write the Conway polynomial of a two-bridge link or knot as
Trapezoidal conjecture. There exists an integer such that
The conjecture was motivated by computations of the Conway polynomials of all two-bridge links and knots with at most 20 crossings. If true, it would imply the stated convexity property for the coefficients of the Alexander polynomial of every two-bridge knot.
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Primary source
P. -V. Koseleff and D. Pecker, “Conway polynomials of two-bridge links”, arXiv:1011.5992 (2012).
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