Conjecture on the third term of lens surgery polynomials
Conjecture on the third term of lens surgery polynomials
Let and be relatively prime positive integers. Let be the lens space knot in the homology sphere dual to a simple -knot in a lens space, with parameters . Let denote its symmetrized Alexander polynomial, and suppose its third top term is non-zero. Third-term conjecture. Then there is an integer such that
or, equivalently, . The conjecture concerns a criterion forcing the Alexander polynomial of these lens space knots to be that of an odd -torus knot; the supplied text does not state whether it has been resolved.
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Motoo Tange, “The third term in lens surgery polynomials”, arXiv:2005.09004 (2020).
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