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

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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 C1⊆C2⊆C3⊆C4{\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.

C3≠C4.{\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.

References

Primary source

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

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