Strong version of Ishii's conjecture for the Links–Gould invariant

Let LL be an alternating link with μ\mu components, and write its Links–Gould polynomial as

LG(L;t0,t1)=i,jaijt0it1j.\mathrm{LG}(L;t_0,t_1)=\sum_{i,j}a_{ij}t_0^i t_1^j.

For a two-indexed sequence (aij)(a_{ij}), define its support by Supp(aij)={(i,j)Z2:aij0}\operatorname{Supp}(a_{ij})=\{(i,j)\in\mathbb Z^2:a_{ij}\ne0\}; it has no interior zeros when

Conv(Supp(aij))Z2=Supp(aij).\operatorname{Conv}(\operatorname{Supp}(a_{ij}))\cap\mathbb Z^2=\operatorname{Supp}(a_{ij}).

Strong version of Ishii's conjecture. The coefficients satisfy aij=(1)μ+i+j+1aija_{ij}=(-1)^{\mu+i+j+1}|a_{ij}| for all i,ji,j, and (aij)(a_{ij}) has no interior zeros. The source notes that this stronger formulation is false for another two-variable Alexander-polynomial generalization, but gives no resolution for the Links–Gould claim.

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Matthew Harper, Ben-Michael Kohli, Jiebo Song and Guillaume Tahar, “On some log-concavity properties of the Alexander-Conway and Links-Gould invariants”, arXiv:2509.16868 (2025).

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