The d-invariant characterization of amphichiral 2-bridge knots

Let p,qNp,q\in\mathbb{N} with pp odd and (p,q)=1(p,q)=1. Write L(p,q)L(p,q) for the lens space associated to the 2-bridge knot K(p/q)K(p/q), and let its Heegaard Floer correction terms be the values d(L(p,q),s)d(L(p,q),\mathfrak{s}) over Spinc(L(p,q)){\textup{Spin}^c}(L(p,q)). The d-invariant characterization conjecture. The following are equivalent: the correction terms of L(p,q)L(p,q) can be partitioned into multisets, each of the form {r,r,r,r}\{r,-r,r,-r\} for some rQr\in\mathbb{Q}, together with a single multiset {0}\{0\}; the 2-bridge knot K(p/q)K(p/q) is amphichiral; there is an orientation-reversing self-diffeomorphism of L(p,q)L(p,q); and q21(modp)q^2\equiv -1\pmod p. This conjecture proposes that the correction-term pattern exactly characterizes amphichirality, equivalently the orientation-reversing symmetry of the lens space and the stated congruence condition. The paper notes that the pattern was checked for all 2-bridge knots with at most 12 crossings, but does not establish the equivalence in general.

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Keegan Boyle and Ahmad Issa, “Equivariantly slicing strongly negative amphichiral knots”, arXiv:2109.01198 (2021).

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