The determinant conjecture for the remaining Möbius-band block

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Let n≥2n\geq 2, let G~nMbn,1\widetilde{G}_{n}^{Mb_{n,1}} denote the remaining block in the decomposition of the Gram matrix of type (Mb)1(Mb)_1, and let T2kT_{2k} be the Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind. Remaining-block determinant conjecture.

det⁡(G~nMbn,1)=∏k=2n(T2k(d)−2)(2nn−k).\det\bigl(\widetilde{G}_{n}^{Mb_{n,1}}\bigr)=\prod_{k=2}^n\bigl(T_{2k}(d)-2\bigr)^{\binom{2n}{n-k}}.

The paper states that this product is conjectured to be a factor of DnMbD_n^{\mathit{Mb}} and that the assertion implies the preceding (Mb)1(Mb)_1 Gram determinant conjecture via the proved theorem. Its general validity remains open.

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

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