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The Generalized Kauffman-Harary Conjecture is True

Geometric Topology 2025-08-20 v1

Abstract

For a reduced alternating diagram of a knot with a prime determinant p,p, the Kauffman-Harary conjecture states that every non-trivial Fox pp-coloring of the knot assigns different colors to its arcs. In this paper, we prove a generalization of the conjecture stated nineteen years ago by Asaeda, Przytycki, and Sikora: for every pair of distinct arcs in the reduced alternating diagram of a prime link with determinant δ,\delta, there exists a Fox δ\delta-coloring that distinguishes them.

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@article{arxiv.2301.02645,
  title  = {The Generalized Kauffman-Harary Conjecture is True},
  author = {Rhea Palak Bakshi and Huizheng Guo and Gabriel Montoya-Vega and Sujoy Mukherjee and Józef H. Przytycki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.02645},
  year   = {2025}
}

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14 pages, 9 figures

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