Proof of the volume conjecture for Whitehead chains
Geometric Topology
2009-09-29 v2 Quantum Algebra
Abstract
We prove the volume conjecture for an infinite family of links called Whitehead chains that generalizes both the Whitehead link and the Borromean rings.
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@article{arxiv.math/0611181,
title = {Proof of the volume conjecture for Whitehead chains},
author = {Roland van der Veen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0611181},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 1 figure. See also http://www.science.uva.nl/~riveen/papers.html New in version two is a computation for the constant term in the asymptotic expansion. The proof of lemma 5 has been omitted because it is almost the same as that of lemma 4