On the potential functions for a link diagram
Geometric Topology
2023-05-16 v1
Abstract
For an oriented diagram of a link 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 -representation of . 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 -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 -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