Conant's integral Conway polynomial splitting conjecture for amphicheiral knots
Conant's integral Conway polynomial splitting conjecture for amphicheiral knots
Let be an amphicheiral knot, and let denote its Conway polynomial. Conant's integral splitting conjecture. For some , one has
The conjecture strengthens the mod-4 splitting claim and is already known for negative and strongly positive amphicheiral knots by the Hartley–Kawauchi theorem. It is refuted by the same counterexamples of Ermotti, Hongler, and Weber that disprove the mod-4 claim.
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Primary source
James Conant and Vajira Manathunga, “The Conway Polynomial and Amphicheiral Knots”, arXiv:1608.04453 (2016).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2016). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1106.5634.
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