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A proof of the Kauffman-Harary Conjecture

Geometric Topology 2014-10-01 v2

Abstract

We prove the Kauffman-Harary Conjecture, posed in 1999: given a reduced, alternating diagram D of a knot with prime determinant p, every non-trivial Fox p-coloring of D will assign different colors to different arcs.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0906.1612,
  title  = {A proof of the Kauffman-Harary Conjecture},
  author = {Thomas W. Mattman and Pablo Solis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.1612},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

v2: Simplification of argument in Section 3; 10 pages and 3 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-21T13:11:09.101Z