Triviality conjecture for Legendrian unknot racks

Let LL be a Legendrian unknot, let tb(L)tb(L) denote its Thurston–Bennequin number, and let nn-Legendrian racks be the racks associated to LL by the nn-Legendrian rack construction. Triviality conjecture. If

tb(L)=2k\mid tb(L) \mid = 2^k

for some kNk\in\mathbb{N}, then every nn-Legendrian rack is trivial. This conjecture was motivated by automated theorem-prover experiments for several cusped Legendrian unknots; a general proof was not obtained, so its status remains open.

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Dheeraj Kulkarni and T. V. H. Prathamesh, “On Rack Invariants Of Legendrian Knots”, arXiv:1706.07626 (2017).

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