The Kauffman–Harary conjecture for prime-determinant alternating knot diagrams
The Kauffman–Harary conjecture for prime-determinant alternating knot diagrams
Let be a reduced alternating diagram of a knot with determinant , where is prime. A Fox -coloring is a coloring of the arcs of by elements of satisfying the crossing relations, and it is non-trivial when not all arcs receive the same color. Kauffman–Harary conjecture. Every non-trivial -coloring of 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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