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On the potential functions for a link diagram

Geometric Topology 2023-05-16 v1

Abstract

For an oriented diagram of a link LL in the 3-sphere, Cho and Murakami defined the potential function whose critical point, slightly different from the usual sense, corresponds to a boundary parabolic PSL(2,C)\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb{C})-representation of π1(S3L)\pi_1(S^3 \setminus L). They also showed that the volume and Chern-Simons invariant of such a representation can be computed from the potential function with its partial derivatives. In this paper, we extend the potential function to a PSL(2,C)\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb{C})-representation that is not necessarily boundary parabolic. Under a mild assumption, it leads us to a combinatorial formula for computing the volume and Chern-Simons invariant of a PSL(2,C)\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb{C})-representation of a closed 3-manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1810.09080,
  title  = {On the potential functions for a link diagram},
  author = {Seokbeom Yoon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.09080},
  year   = {2023}
}

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22 pages

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