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.
References
Primary source
Motoo Tange, “The third term in lens surgery polynomials”, arXiv:2005.09004 (2020).
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