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Colored Jones polynomials with polynomial growth

Geometric Topology 2008-04-19 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The volume conjecture and its generalizations say that the colored Jones polynomial corresponding to the N-dimensional irreducible representation of sl(2;C) of a (hyperbolic) knot evaluated at exp(c/N) grows exponentially with respect to N if one fixes a complex number c near 2*Pi*I. On the other hand if the absolute value of c is small enough, it converges to the inverse of the Alexander polynomial evaluated at exp(c). In this paper we study cases where it grows polynomially.

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@article{arxiv.0711.2836,
  title  = {Colored Jones polynomials with polynomial growth},
  author = {Kazuhiro Hikami and Hitoshi Murakami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2836},
  year   = {2008}
}

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17 pages, to appear in Commun. Contemp. Math

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