Ohtsuki's factorial integrality conjecture for homology 3-sphere invariants

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Let MM be an oriented integral homology 3-sphere, and write Ohtsuki's power series as

τ(M)=1+∑n=1∞λn(M)(t−1)n.\tau(M)=1+\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\lambda_n(M)(t-1)^n.

Ohtsuki's factorial integrality conjecture. For every n≥1n\geq 1 and every integral homology 3-sphere MM,

n!⋅λn(M)∈6Z.n!\cdot\lambda_n(M)\in 6\mathbb{Z}.

The theorem preceding the conjecture gives λ2(M)∈3Z\lambda_2(M)\in 3\mathbb{Z}, while λ1(M)∈6Z\lambda_1(M)\in 6\mathbb{Z}; these divisibility results motivate the conjecture, whose resolution is not specified in the source.

References

Primary source

Xiao-Song Lin and Zhenghan Wang, “On Ohtsuki's invariants of integral homology 3-spheres, I”, arXiv:q-alg/9509009 (1996).

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