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  title info:
    title: Volume Conjecture for Knots
  name:
    name part: Murakami, Hitoshi.
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      role term: creator
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      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Yokota, Yoshiyuki.
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      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 120 p. 98 illus., 18 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Hitoshi Murakami, Yoshiyuki Yokota.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Topology
  subject:
    topic: Hyperbolic geometry
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Physics
  subject:
    topic: Topology
  subject:
    topic: Hyperbolic Geometry
  classification: QA401-425
  classification: QC19.2-20.85
  classification: 530.15
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics, 30
  identifier: 9789811311505
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1150-5
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