The conjecture that knot-generated graphs differ from graphs with polynomial one

Let C1{\cal C}_1 be the set of graphs isotopic to planar graphs, C2{\cal C}_2 the set of graphs isotopic to graphs obtained from planar graphs by the specified moves, C3{\cal C}_3 the set of graphs isotopic to graphs obtained from knots, including the unknot, by those moves, and C4{\cal C}_4 the set of graphs whose polynomial PP equals 11. The known inclusions are C1C2C3C4{\cal C}_1\subseteq{\cal C}_2\subseteq{\cal C}_3\subseteq{\cal C}_4.

The conjecture that C3{\cal C}_3 and C4{\cal C}_4 differ.

C3C4.{\cal C}_3\neq{\cal C}_4.

This asserts that not every graph with polynomial P=1P=1 can be obtained from a knot by the specified moves. The paper presents the question alongside the established inclusions but gives no proof or resolution of this separation.

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Primary source

Rui Pedro Carpentier, “Topological notions for Kauffman and Vogel's polynomial”, arXiv:math/0204207 (2002).

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