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 the Kauffman-Harary conjecture states that every non-trivial Fox -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 there exists a Fox -coloring that distinguishes them.
Cite
@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