Polynomial defining the maximal-dimensional augmentation component for knots

About 13 years old · traced to

Let K⊂R3K\subset\mathbb{R}^3 be a knot, let HC∗(K)HC_*(K) be its contact homology algebra, and let

VK=\setn(ϵ(λ),ϵ(μ))ϵ is an augmentation of HC∗(K)⊂(C∗)2.V_K=\setn{(\epsilon(\lambda),\epsilon(\mu))}{\epsilon\text{ is an augmentation of }HC_*(K)}\subset(\mathbb{C}^*)^2.

Let VK‾\overline{V_K} denote the closure of VKV_K. Polynomial-component conjecture. The maximum-dimensional component of VK‾\overline{V_K} is the vanishing set of a polynomial for every knot K⊂R3K\subset\mathbb{R}^3. This asserts algebraicity of the maximal-dimensional augmentation component, a property relevant to the relationship between knot contact homology and polynomial knot invariants. The supplied text gives no resolution or further scope for this claim.

References

Primary source

Christopher Cornwell, “Knot contact homology and representations of knot groups”, arXiv:1303.4943 (2014).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.