Owens' H-thin concordance invariant conjecture for delta

Let KK be a knot. Write σ(K)=σ(K)/2\sigma'(K)=-\sigma(K)/2 for the normalized knot signature, let δ(K)=2d(Σ(K),t0)\delta(K)=2d(\Sigma(K),\mathfrak{t}_0) be the concordance invariant from the branched double cover, and call KK H-thin when its Khovanov homology is supported on two adjacent diagonals.

Owens' H-thin conjecture. For any H-thin knot KK,

δ(K)=σ(K).\delta(K)=\sigma'(K).

The equality is known for alternating knots and for knots admitting diagrams with at most nine crossings, and the computations described in the source support the claim for the broader class of H-thin knots. Its general validity remains open.

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Ciprian Manolescu and Brendan Owens, “A concordance invariant from the Floer homology of double branched covers”, arXiv:math/0508065 (2005).

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