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Possible "binomial" formula for the Jones polynomial
Regardless of the notation, the links in question are the (2,n) torus links (or possibly their mirror images). The knots come from the odd values n=3,5,7,9,... and the links are the even values n=2,4,6,8,.... So the answers to questions 1 and 2 are T(2,15) and T(2,10).
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Is every tricolourable knot chiral?
KnotInfo has lots of prime examples -- look at determinant and symmetry type, and anything with det(K) a multiple of 3 and amphichiral symmetry will work. The first of these is 8_18.
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May this slice disk for the unknot be pushed into the boundary?
There's a continuous family of disks $S^1\times[0,t] \cup (D^2 x \{t\})$ with boundary $K$. At $t=0$ you have $D^2 \times \{0\}$, and at $t=1$ the whole disk lies in $S^3$.
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Does tangle closure determine the triviality of the tangle?
The core of one filling is a knot $K$ in $S^3$, and then the other $S^3$ filling is a nontrivial Dehn surgery on $K$. Since $K$ has a nontrivial $S^3$ surgery, it must be the unknot (this is theorem 2 of Gordon--Luecke, "Knots are determined by their complements"), and so its complement is a solid torus.
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Hyperbolic Dehn surgeries and SU(2)-representations
I'm claiming this fact for any rational homology sphere $Y$ with the additional hypothesis that $\pi_1(Y)$ is "cyclically finite", a condition which ensures that the Chern-Simons functional used to define $I^\#(Y)$ is Morse-Bott at the reducible representations. (See Theorem 4.6 of that paper for the precise statement.). When $Y$ is $p/q$-surgery on a knot $K$, Boyer--Nicas proved this hypothesis equivalent to the condition that no root of $\Delta_K(t^2)$ is a $p$th root of unity.
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