Ishii–Morton Gram determinant conjecture for the Möbius-band type (Mb)1(Mb)_1

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Let n≥1n\geq 1, let Dn(Mb)1D_n^{(Mb)_1} denote the Gram determinant of type (Mb)1(Mb)_1, let TkT_k be the kkth Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind, and set d=−A2−A−2d=-A^2-A^{-2}. Ishii–Morton's conjecture. The determinant is

Dn(Mb)1=[(d−z)((d+z)w−2xy)](2nn−1)∏k=2n(Tk(d)2−z2)(2nn−k)∏k=2n(T2k(d)−2)(2nn−k).D_n^{(Mb)_1}=\left[(d-z)((d+z)w-2xy)\right]^{\binom{2n}{n-1}} \prod_{k=2}^n\bigl(T_k(d)^2-z^2\bigr)^{\binom{2n}{n-k}} \prod_{k=2}^n\bigl(T_{2k}(d)-2\bigr)^{\binom{2n}{n-k}}.

The paper attributes this conjecture to the cited source and proves a theorem reducing it to the determinant of a remaining block, but the closed formula itself is not established in general.

References

Primary source

Dionne Ibarra and Gabriel Montoya-Vega, “A Study of Gram Determinants in Knot Theory”, arXiv:2402.09704 (2025).

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