Jones's conjecture on nontrivial knots with trivial Jones polynomial

Let KK be a knot, and let V(K)V(K) denote its Jones polynomial. A knot is non-trivial if it is not isotopic to the unknot. Jones's conjecture. There exists a non-trivial knot KK such that

V(K)=1.V(K)=1.

The statement is presented as still open, although Khovanov homology detects the unknot, showing that the analogous question for Khovanov homology has a negative answer.

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Primary source

Monica Queen, “On the Jones Polynomial”, arXiv:2108.13835 (2021).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2000–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0012086.

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