Asymptotic square-root deviation conjecture for knot slope and signature

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Let KK be a hyperbolic knot in S3S^3. Write σ(K)\sigma(K) for its signature, slope(K)\operatorname{slope}(K) for its slope invariant, and vol(K)\operatorname{vol}(K) for its hyperbolic volume. A property holds asymptotically almost surely if its probability for knots with nn crossings tends to 11 as nn\to\infty.

Slope-signature deviation conjecture. There are constants bb and cc such that, for any hyperbolic knot KK in S3S^3,

2σ(K)slope(K)bvol(K)+c|2\sigma(K)-\operatorname{slope}(K)|\leq b\sqrt{\operatorname{vol}(K)}+c

asymptotically almost surely.

This proposes a more precise asymptotic relationship between the slope and the signature. It is motivated by the observed smallness of the normalized quantity involving their difference, but no resolution is supplied here.

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Primary source

Alex Davies, András Juhász, Marc Lackenby and Nenad Tomasev, “The signature and cusp geometry of hyperbolic knots”, arXiv:2111.15323 (2022).

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