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We study the asymptotic behavior of the $N$-dimensional colored Jones polynomial of the figure-eight knot evaluated at $\exp\bigl((u+2p\pi\i)/N\bigr)$, where $u$ is a small real number and $p$ is a positive integer. We show that it is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Hitoshi Murakami

We recently discovered a relationship between the volume density spectrum and the determinant density spectrum for infinite sequences of hyperbolic knots. Here, we extend this study to new quantum density spectra associated to quantum…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Abhijit Champanerkar , Ilya Kofman , Jessica S. Purcell

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the colored Jones polynomials evaluated at roots of unity for a special class of knots. We show that certain limit is zero as predicted by the volume conjecture.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-07-31 Qihou Liu

We study the asymptotic behaviors of the colored Jones polynomials of torus knots. Contrary to the works by R. Kashaev, O. Tirkkonen, Y. Yokota, and the author, they do not seem to give the volumes or the Chern-Simons invariants of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hitoshi Murakami

To a knot in 3-space, one can associate a sequence of Laurent polynomials, whose $n$th term is the $n$th colored Jones polynomial. The paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the value of the $n$th colored Jones polynomial at…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Stavros Garoufalidis , Thang T. Q. Le

We propose a conjecture to compute the all-order asymptotic expansion of the colored Jones polynomial of the complement of a hyperbolic knot, J_N(q = exp(2u/N)) when N goes to infinity. Our conjecture claims that the asymptotic expansion of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Gaëtan Borot , Bertrand Eynard

In this work, we give a formula for the logarithmic invariant of knots in terms of certain derivatives of the colored Jones invariant. This invariant is related to the logarithmic conformal field theory, and was defined by using the centers…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Jun Murakami

This is a survey talk on one of the best known quantum knot invariants, the colored Jones polynomial of a knot, and its relation to the algebraic/geometric topology and hyperbolic geometry of the knot complement. We review several aspects…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-04-03 Stavros Garoufalidis

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…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-04-01 David Futer , Efstratia Kalfagianni , Jessica S. Purcell

We compare eight versions of finite-dimensional categorifications of the colored Jones polynomial and show that they yield isomorphic results over a field of characteristic zero. As an application, we verify a physics-motivated conjectural…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Karim Ritter von Merkl

We study the asymptotic behavior of the $N$-dimensional colored Jones polynomial of a cable of the figure-eight knot, evaluated at $\exp(\xi/N)$ for a real number $\xi$. We show that if $\xi$ is sufficiently large, the colored Jones…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Hitoshi Murakami , Anh T. Tran

We reveal a relationship between the colored Jones polynomial and the A-polynomial for twist knots. We demonstrate that an asymptotics of the $N$-colored Jones polynomial in large $N$ gives the potential function, and that the A-polynomial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-11 Kazuhiro Hikami

Loosely speaking, the Volume Conjecture states that the limit of the n-th colored Jones polynomial of a hyperbolic knot, evaluated at the primitive complex n-th root of unity is a sequence of complex numbers that grows exponentially.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Stavros Garoufalidis , Yueheng Lan

We show the $n$ colored Jones polynomials of a highly twisted link approach the Kauffman bracket of an $n$ colored skein element. This is in the sense that the corresponding categorifications of the colored Jones polynomials approach the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Christine Ruey Shan Lee

We provide a new bound on the maximum degree of the Jones polynomial of a positive link with second Jones coefficient equal to $\pm 1$ or $\pm 2$. This builds upon the result of our previous work, in which we found such a bound for positive…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Lizzie Buchanan

This is the second article in a series devoted to the study of the asymptotic expansions of various quantum invariants related to the twist knots. In this article, following the method and results in \cite{CZ23-1}, we present an asymptotic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Qingtao Chen , Shengmao Zhu

The colored Jones polynomial is a series of one variable Laurent polynomials J(K,n) associated with a knot K in 3-space. We will show that for an alternating knot K the absolute values of the first and the last three leading coefficients of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oliver T. Dasbach , Xiao-Song Lin

We calculate limits of the colored Jones polynomials of the figure-eight knot and conclude that in most cases they determine the volumes and the Chern--Simons invariants of the three-manifolds obtained by Dehn surgeries along it.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-10-07 Hitoshi Murakami , Yoshiyuki Yokota

This is the first article in a series devoted to the study of the asymptotic expansions of various quantum invariants related to the twist knots. In this paper, by using the saddle point method developed by Ohtsuki, we obtain an asymptotic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Qingtao Chen , Shengmao Zhu

We formulate a stability conjecture for the coefficients of the colored Jones polynomial of a knot, colored by irreducible representations in a fixed ray of a simple Lie algebra, and verify it for all torus knots and all simple Lie algebras…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Stavros Garoufalidis , Thao Vuong