The Kauffman–Harary conjecture for prime-determinant alternating knot diagrams

Let DD be a reduced alternating diagram of a knot KK with determinant pp, where pp is prime. A Fox pp-coloring is a coloring of the arcs of DD by elements of Zp\mathbb Z_p satisfying the crossing relations, and it is non-trivial when not all arcs receive the same color. Kauffman–Harary conjecture. Every non-trivial pp-coloring of DD assigns different colors to different arcs.

The conjecture was proved in full generality by Mattman and Solis using pseudo-colorings, so it is no longer open.

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Primary source

Rhea Palak Bakshi, Huizheng Guo, Gabriel Montoya-Vega, Sujoy Mukherjee and Józef H. Przytycki, “The Generalized Kauffman-Harary Conjecture is True”, arXiv:2301.02645 (2023).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0906.1612, arXiv:math/0512088.

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