Conjecture on linking forms and Jones–Rong polynomial values for knots with signature four
Conjecture on linking forms and Jones–Rong polynomial values for knots with signature four
Let be a knot, let denote its signature, let denote the first homology group of the double branched cover of , and let be the associated polynomial value used in the paper. A finite abelian group is a double when it is isomorphic to a direct sum of two equal cyclic groups. Linking-form and polynomial-value conjecture. There are no knots with and cyclic of order a prime square. If and , then
rather than . These assertions concern unexplained empirical phenomena connecting the signature, the homology and linking form of the double branched cover, and the polynomial value; the source presents them as problems supported by strong empirical evidence, with no resolution supplied here.
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A. Stoimenow, “Polynomial values, the linking form and unknotting numbers”, arXiv:math/0405076 (2004).
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