The dimer-model conjecture for torus knots

A (p,q)(p,q) torus knot is the knot represented by the standard torus-knot construction with coprime positive integers pp and qq. A dimer model is a combinatorial model whose underlying graph is bipartite and whose perfect matchings encode the relevant knot-theoretic data.

Torus-knot dimer-model conjecture. Every (p,q)(p,q) torus knot admits a dimer model.

The conjecture is proposed as a future direction motivated by the explicit computations in the paper and by the braid-group description of torus knots. The source does not give evidence that it has been proved or disproved.

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Derya Asaner, Sanjay Kumar, Melody Molander, Andrew Pease and Anup Poudel, “A determinant formula of the Jones polynomial for a family of braids”, arXiv:2408.13410 (2024).

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