Classical sufficiency conjecture for the exceptional diagram category

Let RR be a ring and let λ\boldsymbol{\lambda} be a parameter such that the category ExcR,λ\mathsf{Exc}_{R,\lambda} is defined; write ExcR,λ(n)\mathsf{Exc}_{R,\lambda}(n) for its space of diagrams with nn boundary points. Classical sufficiency conjecture. If a certain finite set of nonzero polynomials in λ\lambda is invertible in RR, then ExcR,λ(n)\mathsf{Exc}_{R,\lambda}(n) is finitely generated as an RR-module for every nn. Moreover, ExcR,λ(0)\mathsf{Exc}_{R,\lambda}(0) is spanned by the empty diagram, ExcR,λ(1)\mathsf{Exc}_{R,\lambda}(1) is the zero module, ExcR,λ(2)\mathsf{Exc}_{R,\lambda}(2) is spanned by the strand, ExcR,λ(3)\mathsf{Exc}_{R,\lambda}(3) is spanned by the trivalent vertex, and ExcR,λ(4)\mathsf{Exc}_{R,\lambda}(4) is spanned by the five diagrams specified in the source. The conjecture would give finite diagrammatic control of the classical exceptional family; the source also notes that specific spanning sets are conjectured through n=6n=6, while the required finite set of polynomials is not explicitly identified in the statement.

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Kim Morrison, Noah Snyder and Dylan P. Thurston, “Towards the quantum exceptional series”, arXiv:2402.03637 (2025).

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