The nice-knot characterization conjecture

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Let KK be a knot. A knot is nice when it admits a braid representative equipped with an inversion datum, as defined in the paper. It is fibered when its complement fibers over the circle with fiber a Seifert surface. Nice-knot characterization conjecture. A knot KK is nice if and only if it is fibered. The paper proves the forward computational evidence for all fibered knots up to 12 crossings and reports no inversion data for non-fibered knots; the equivalence remains open.

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Paul Orland, Lara San Martín Suárez, Toby Saunders-A'Court and Josef Svoboda, “Quantum Invariants and Fiberedness”, arXiv:2512.23700 (2026).

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