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A stability conjecture for the colored Jones polynomial

Geometric Topology 2013-10-29 v1

Abstract

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 of rank 22. Our conjecture is motivated by a structure theorem for the degree and the coefficients of a qq-holonomic sequence of polynomials given in [Ga2] and by a stability theorem of the colored Jones polynomial of an alternating knot given in \cite{GL2}. We illustrate our results with sample computations.

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@article{arxiv.1310.7143,
  title  = {A stability conjecture for the colored Jones polynomial},
  author = {Stavros Garoufalidis and Thao Vuong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7143},
  year   = {2013}
}

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32 pages, 4 figures

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