Scaling conjecture for Legendrian unknot racks

Let L1L_1 and L2L_2 be Legendrian unknots, let tb(Li)tb(L_i) denote their Thurston–Bennequin numbers, and let LR(Li)\mathcal{LR}(L_i) denote their Legendrian racks. Scaling conjecture. If

tb(L1)=2ktb(L2)tb(L_1)=2^k tb(L_2)

for some kZ0k\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}, then

LR(L1)=LR(L2).\mathcal{LR}(L_1)=\mathcal{LR}(L_2).

This conjecture was postulated from experimental data for several cusped Legendrian unknots and from the proof strategy for another theorem. Since automated theorem provers did not readily check rack isomorphisms for nontrivial racks, no general experimental verification was available, and the conjecture 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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