The strong slope conjecture and torus knots

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/81068106zbMATH Open1437.57008arXiv1808.08284OpenAlexW2963074616WikidataQ123018129 ScholiaQ123018129MaRDI QIDQ2176571FDOQ2176571

Authors: Efstratia Kalfagianni 

Publication date: 5 May 2020

Published in: Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We observe that the strong slope conjecture implies that the degree of the colored Jones polynomial detects all torus knots. As an application we obtain that an adequate knot that has the same colored Jones polynomial degrees as a torus knot must be a $(2,q)$-torus knot.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08284

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zbMATH Keywords

torus knotsJones slopeboundary slopestrong slope conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Knot polynomials (57K14) Knot theory (57K10) Higher-dimensional knots and links (57K45) General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30)

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