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Volume conjecture for knots

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Volume conjecture for knots/ by Hitoshi Murakami, Yoshiyuki Yokota.
Author:	Murakami, Hitoshi.
other author:	Yokota, Yoshiyuki.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Singapore : : 2018.,
Description:	ix, 120 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Knot theory. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1150-5
ISBN:	9789811311505

Volume conjecture for knots
Murakami, Hitoshi.

Volume conjecture for knots[electronic resource] /by Hitoshi Murakami, Yoshiyuki Yokota. - Singapore :Springer Singapore :2018. - ix, 120 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - SpringerBriefs in mathematical physics,v.302197-1757 ;. - SpringerBriefs in mathematical physics ;v.2..

1. Preliminaries (knots and links, braids, hyperbolic geometry) -- 2. R-matrix, the Kashaev invariant and the colored Jones polynomimal -- 3. Volume conjecture -- 4. Triangulation of a knot complement and hyperbolicity equation -- 5. Idea of the "proof" -- 6. Representations of a knot group into SL(2;C) and their Chern-Simons invariant -- 7. Generalization of the volume conjecture.

The volume conjecture states that a certain limit of the colored Jones polynomial of a knot in the three-dimensional sphere would give the volume of the knot complement. Here the colored Jones polynomial is a generalization of the celebrated Jones polynomial and is defined by using a so-called R-matrix that is associated with the N-dimensional representation of the Lie algebra sl(2;C) The volume conjecture was first stated by R. Kashaev in terms of his own invariant defined by using the quantum dilogarithm. Later H. Murakami and J. Murakami proved that Kashaev's invariant is nothing but the N-dimensional colored Jones polynomial evaluated at the Nth root of unity. Then the volume conjecture turns out to be a conjecture that relates an algebraic object, the colored Jones polynomial, with a geometric object, the volume. In this book we start with the definition of the colored Jones polynomial by using braid presentations of knots. Then we state the volume conjecture and give a very elementary proof of the conjecture for the figure-eight knot following T. Ekholm. We then give a rough idea of the "proof", that is, we show why we think the conjecture is true at least in the case of hyperbolic knots by showing how the summation formula for the colored Jones polynomial "looks like" the hyperbolicity equations of the knot complement. We also describe a generalization of the volume conjecture that corresponds to a deformation of the complete hyperbolic structure of a knot complement. This generalization would relate the colored Jones polynomial of a knot to the volume and the Chern-Simons invariant of a certain representation of the fundamental group of the knot complement to the Lie group SL(2;C) We finish by mentioning further generalizations of the volume conjecture.

ISBN: 9789811311505

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-13-1150-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

792363
Knot theory.

LC Class. No.: QA612.2 / .M873 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 514.2242

Volume conjecture for knots
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