Plamenevskaya-type invariant survival conjecture for bridgeless plane graphs

Let Γ\Gamma be a bridgeless plane graph of a connected graph GG. Let ψ(Γ)\psi(\Gamma) be the invariant represented by the all-xn1x^{n-1} tensor in the nn-color homology, and let kk be the quantum grading appearing in CHn0,k(Γ;C)CH_n^{0,k}(\Gamma;\mathbb{C}). Invariant survival conjecture. The class

ψ(Γ)CHn0,k(Γ;C)\psi(\Gamma)\in CH_n^{0,k}(\Gamma;\mathbb{C})

lives to the EE_\infty-page of the spectral sequence. The conjecture is motivated by computations for bridgeless plane graphs and would provide a non-computer-based approach to the four-color theorem; whether the class always survives remains open.

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Scott Baldridge and Ben McCarty, “A topological quantum field theory approach to graph coloring”, arXiv:2303.12010 (2023).

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