Slopes for pretzel knots

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Authors Christine Ruey Shan Lee, Roland van der Veen

Publication date 3 January 2017

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04546, http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/2016/22-59.html

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boundary slopescolored Jones polynomialHatcher-Oertel algorithmJones slopespretzel knotslope conjecturestrong slope conjecture

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Abstract: Using the Hatcher-Oertel algorithm for finding boundary slopes of Montesinos knots, we prove the Slope Conjecture and the Strong Slope Conjecture for a family of 3-tangle pretzel knots. More precisely, we prove that the maximal degrees of the colored Jones polynomial of such knots determine a boundary slope as predicted by the Slope Conjecture, and that the linear term in the degrees correspond to the Euler characteristic of an essential surface.

Review text

Let \(K\) be a knot in the 3-sphere, and let \(J_{K,n}(q)\in \mathbb{Z}[q^{\pm 1}]\) be the colored Jones function. The Jones slopes of \(K\) is a set of rational numbers determined by the growth rate of the maximal and minimal degrees of the colored Jones function. The slope conjecture affirms that any Jones slope of \(K\) is also the slope of an essential surface in the exterior of \(K\) (an orientable and properly embedded surface in the exterior of \(K\) is essential if it is incompressible, \(\partial\)-incompressible, and non-boundary parallel; a non-orientable surface is essential if its orientable double cover is essential). This conjecture was proposed by \textit{S. Garoufalidis} [Quantum Topol. 2, No. 1, 43--69 (2011; Zbl 1228.57004)]. \textit{E. Kalfagianni} and \textit{A. T. Tran} [New York J. Math. 21, 905--941 (2015; Zbl 1331.57022)] proposed a strong slope conjecture, which associates to each Jones slope a certain essential surface with a given Euler characteristic and number of boundary components. The slope conjecture has been proved for several classes of knots. In this paper the slope conjecture and strong slope conjecture are proved for pretzel knots \(P(1/r ,1/s ,1/t)\), where \(r\), \(s\), \(t\) are odd, \(r < -1\), \(s,t >1\) and either (a) \(2| r | < s,t\), or (b) \(| r | > s\) or \(| r | > t\). The proof consist of two parts. First, by a calculation the set of Jones slopes is determined. Second, by using the algorithm of \textit{A. Hatcher} and \textit{U. Oertel} for Montesinos knots [Topology 28, No. 4, 453--480 (1989; Zbl 0686.57006)], the set of boundary slopes and the corresponding surfaces are constructed, which are shown to coincide with the ones predicted by the previous computations.

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