Watson's diagonal grading characterization of strongly invertible L-space knots

Let KK be a non-trivial knot in S3S^3 admitting a strong inversion, an orientation-preserving involution of S3S^3 that reverses the orientation of KK, and let [?][?] be its Watson invariant, a finite-dimensional vector space with absolute homological grading hh and relative quantum grading qq.

Watson's conjecture. KK is an L-space knot if and only if [?][?] is supported in a single diagonal grading

δ=q2h.\delta=q-2h.

Here an L-space knot is a knot admitting a surgery to a Heegaard Floer L-space. The conjecture proposes a Khovanov-homological characterization of strongly invertible L-space knots; the converse direction is stated in the paper to remain open.

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Kenneth L. Baker, Marc Kegel and Duncan McCoy, “Two curious strongly invertible L-space knots”, arXiv:2409.09833 (2025).

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