Corrected HZ factorisability conjecture for knots of braid index at least four
Corrected HZ factorisability conjecture for knots of braid index at least four
Let be a knot with braid index at least , where . Let be its HOMFLY–PT polynomial, let be the transformed Kauffman polynomial, and let be the HZ transform of . The transform is factorisable when
Corrected HZ factorisability conjecture. If the HOMFLY–PT/Kauffman relation holds, then the HZ transform is factorisable:
This is proposed after the converse implication was disproved by 4-strand counterexamples; the paper expects the corrected one-way statement to hold for general .
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Andreani Petrou and Shinobu Hikami, “A relation between the HOMFLY-PT and Kauffman polynomials via characters”, arXiv:2603.03628 (2026).
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