Strict growth conjecture for prime knot counts by crossing number
Let be a positive integer. Let be a prime knot projection and a prime knot. Let be the number of double points of and the minimum number of crossings of . Define
For a set , let denote its cardinality.
Strict growth conjecture for prime knots. If , then
This is identified in the source as a famous conjecture concerning the number of prime knots with a given crossing number. The same candidate span also records analogous assertions for prime knot projections and the inequality , but the first assertion is the explicitly attributed conjecture; its resolution is not indicated in the supplied text.
References
Primary source
Noboru Ito and Yusuke Takimura, “The tabulation of prime knot projections with their mirror images up to eight double points”, arXiv:2108.09698 (2021).
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