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New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 25 (2019), 45-70

  

Xudong Leng, Zhiqing Yang, and Ximin Liu

The slope conjectures for 3-string Montesinos knots

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Published: January 5, 2019.
Keywords: slope conjecture; colored Jones polynomial; quadratic integer programming; boundary slope; incompressible surface.
Subject: 57N10, 57M25.

Abstract
The (strong) slope conjecture relates the degree of the colored Jones polynomial of a knot to certain essential surfaces in the knot complement. We verify the slope conjecture and the strong slope conjecture for 3-string Montesinos knots satisfying certain conditions.

Acknowledgements

Yang is supported by the NFSC (No. 11271058). Liu is supported by the NFSC (No. 11431009)


Author information

Xudong Leng:
School of Mathematical Sciences
Dalian University of Technology
Dalian 116024, P. R. China

xudleng@163.com

Zhiqing Yang:
School of Mathematical Sciences
Dalian University of Technology
Dalian 116024, P. R. China

yangzhq@dlut.edu.cn

Ximin Liu:
School of Mathematical Sciences
Dalian University of Technology
Dalian 116024, P. R. China

ximinliu@dlut.edu.cn