Palindromicity conjecture for twisted Neumann–Zagier determinant polynomials

Let A(t)\mathbf{A}(t) and B(t)\mathbf{B}(t) be the twisted Neumann–Zagier matrices of an ideal triangulation, with entries Laurent polynomials in tt. A Laurent polynomial p(t)p(t) is palindromic if

p(t)=εtrp(1/t)p(t)=\varepsilon t^r p(1/t)

for some ε=±1\varepsilon=\pm1 and integer rr.

Palindromicity conjecture. The Laurent polynomials det(A(t))\det(\mathbf{A}(t)) and det(B(t))\det(\mathbf{B}(t)) are palindromic.

This is a conjectural property of the twisted Neumann–Zagier matrices that the authors report checking in numerous examples; no resolution is supplied here.

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Primary source

Stavros Garoufalidis and Seokbeom Yoon, “Twisted Neumann–Zagier matrices”, arXiv:2109.00379 (2021).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1411.7683.

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