Jones polynomials, volume, and essential knot surfaces: a survey
Geometric Topology
2014-04-01 v2
Abstract
This paper is a brief overview of recent results by the authors relating colored Jones polynomials to geometric topology. The proofs of these results appear in the papers [arXiv:1002.0256] and [arXiv:1108.3370], while this survey focuses on the main ideas and examples.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1110.6388,
title = {Jones polynomials, volume, and essential knot surfaces: a survey},
author = {David Futer and Efstratia Kalfagianni and Jessica S. Purcell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6388},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
27 pages, 23 figures. v2 contains minor revisions and updated references. To appear in Proceedings of Knots in Poland III