Stoimenow's square leading-coefficient conjecture for amphicheiral knots

Let KK be an amphicheiral knot, and let ΔK\Delta_K denote its Alexander polynomial; equivalently, consider the leading coefficient of its Conway polynomial. Stoimenow's square leading-coefficient conjecture. The leading coefficient of the Alexander (or Conway) polynomial of KK is a square. The claim is motivated by results covering alternating, strongly amphicheiral, negative amphicheiral, low-crossing, and fibered homogeneous knots, but the paper constructs counterexamples among nonstrong positive amphicheiral knots.

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James Conant and Vajira Manathunga, “The Conway Polynomial and Amphicheiral Knots”, arXiv:1608.04453 (2016).

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