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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 prove an equivariant version of the fact that word-hyperbolic groups have finite asymptotic dimension. This is important in connection with our forthcoming proof of the Farrell-Jones conjecture in algebraic K-theory for every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-02-29 Arthur Bartels , Wolfgang Lueck , Holger Reich

We study near-alternating links whose diagrams satisfy conditions generalized from the notion of semi-adequate links. We extend many of the results known for adequate knots relating their colored Jones polynomials to the topology of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Christine Ruey Shan Lee

Color Jones polynomial is one of the most important quantum invariants in knot theory. Finding the geometric information from the color Jones polynomial is an interesting topic. In this paper, we study the general expansion of color Jones…

General Topology · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Shengmao Zhu

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…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Jinseok Cho

This is an introduction to the Volume Conjecture and its generalizations for nonexperts. The Volume Conjecture states that a certain limit of the colored Jones polynomial of a knot would give the volume of its complement. If we deform the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-02-02 Hitoshi Murakami

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 consider transcendental entire solutions of linear $q$-difference equations with polynomial coefficients and determine the asymptotic behavior of their Taylor coefficients. We use this to show that under a suitable hypothesis on the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Walter Bergweiler

In this paper we give an introduction to the volume conjecture and its generalizations. Especially we discuss relations of the asymptotic behaviors of the colored Jones polynomials of a knot with different parameters to representations of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-02-04 Hitoshi 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

We study the asymptotic behavior of the $N$-dimensional colored Jones polynomial evaluated at $\exp(\xi/N)$ for a real number $\xi$ greater than a certain constant. We prove that, from the asymptotic behavior, we can extract the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Hitoshi Murakami , Anh T. Tran

This paper analyzes over 30 types of q-series and the asymptotic behavior of their expansions. A method is described for deriving further asymptotic formulas using convolutions of generating functions with subexponential growth. All…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Vaclav Kotesovec

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

Using the vertex model approach for braid representations, we compute polynomials for spin-1 placed on hyperbolic knots up to 15 crossings. These polynomials are referred to as 3-colored Jones polynomials or adjoint Jones polynomials.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Mark Hughes , Vishnu Jejjala , P. Ramadevi , Pratik Roy , Vivek Kumar Singh

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

The Slope Conjecture relates a quantum knot invariant, (the degree of the colored Jones polynomial of a knot) with a classical one (boundary slopes of incompressible surfaces in the knot complement). The degree of the colored Jones…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Stavros Garoufalidis , Roland van der Veen

R.M. Kashaev conjectured that the asymptotic behavior of his link invariant, which equals the colored Jones polynomial evaluated at a root of unity, determines the hyperbolic volume of any hyperbolic link complement. We observe numerically…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hitoshi Murakami , Jun Murakami , Miyuki Okamoto , Toshie Takata , Yoshiyuki Yokota

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 Volume Conjecture for small angles states that the value of the $n$-th colored Jones polynomial at…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stavros Garoufalidis , Thang T. Q. Le

The volume conjecture and its generalization state that the series of certain evaluations of the colored Jones polynomials of a knot would grow exponentially and its growth rate would be related to the volume of a three-manifold obtained by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-10-07 Hitoshi Murakami

We compute the real part of the semi-classical limit of the sequence of quantum hyperbolic invariants (QHI) of the figure-eight knot complement $M$. We show that it is rigid, in the sense that it does not depend on the choice of holonomy…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Stephane Baseilhac , Fathi Ben Aribi