Lobb's proportionality conjecture for Gornik invariants

Let KK be a knot, and let sn(K)2Zs_n(K)\in 2\mathbb{Z} denote the even integer determined by the Gornik homology of KK for each n2n\geq 2. Lobb's proportionality conjecture. For any knot KK and m,n2m,n\geq 2, one has

sm(K)sn(K)=m1n1.\frac{s_m(K)}{s_n(K)}=\frac{m-1}{n-1}.

Since s2(K)=s(K)s_2(K)=-s(K), this conjecture would make every sns_n equivalent to Rasmussen's original invariant s(K)s(K). Its falsity would have consequences for the non-degeneracy of Rasmussen's spectral sequences, and the authors were seeking a counterexample; the conjecture is therefore open in the source.

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Andrew Lobb, “A note on Gornik's perturbation of Khovanov-Rozansky homology”, arXiv:1012.2802 (2010).

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