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Optimistic limit of the colored Jones polynomial and the existence of a solution

Geometric Topology 2015-06-02 v3

Abstract

For the potential function of a link diagram induced by the optimistic limit of the colored Jones polynomial, we show the existence of a solution of the hyperbolicity equations by directly constructing it. This construction is based on the shadow-coloring of the conjugation quandle induced by a boundary-parabolic representation ρ:π1(L)PSL(2,C)\rho:\pi_1(L)\rightarrow{\rm PSL}(2,\mathbb{C}). This gives us a very simple and combinatorial method to calculate the complex volume of ρ\rho.

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@article{arxiv.1410.0525,
  title  = {Optimistic limit of the colored Jones polynomial and the existence of a solution},
  author = {Jinseok Cho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0525},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Updated explanations. 14 pages, 9 figures. To appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc