Kashaev's volume conjecture

introduction

• The hyperbolic volume of a knot complement can be calculated using the Jones polynimials of the ca
  
• SU(2) connections on S^3-K should be sensitive to the flat SL_ 2(C) connection defining its hyperbolic structure
  

history

• 1995 Kashaev
• 1997 ?
• 2001(?) Murakami

related items

• quantum dilogarithm
• quantum modular forms
• Volume of hyperbolic threefolds and L-values

encyclopedia

• http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_conjecture

books

• 2010년 books and articles
  
• http://gigapedia.info/1/
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• http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=

expositions

• http://www.math.titech.ac.jp/~Jerome/090210%20workshop.pdf
• Hyperbolic volume and the Jones polynomial (PDF), notes from a lecture at MSRI, December 2000. Earlier notes (covering more material) from a lecture series at the Grenoble summer school “Invariants des noeuds et de variétés de dimension 3”, June 1999.
  
• Murakami, Hitoshi. 2010. An Introduction to the Volume Conjecture. 1002.0126 (January 31). http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0126.
  

• H. Murakami, 2008, An introduction to the volume conjecture and its generalizations
• H. Murakami, A quantum introduction to knot theory

articles

• Generalized volume conjecture and the A-polynomials: The Neumann–Zagier potential function as a classical limit of the partition function , 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2007.03.008
• Volume Conjecture and Asymptotic Expansion of q-Series
  
  • Kazuhiro Hikami, Experiment. Math. Volume 12, Number 3 (2003), 319-338
• Proof of the volume conjecture for torus knots
  
  • R. M. Kashaev and O. Tirkkonen, 2003

• Kashaev's Conjecture and the Chern-Simons Invariants of Knots and Links
  
  • Hitoshi Murakami, Jun Murakami, Miyuki Okamoto, Toshie Takata, and Yoshiyuki Yokota, 2002
• Hyperbolic Structure Arising from a Knot Invariant, 2001
• The colored Jones polynomials and the simplicial volume of a knot
  
  • J.Murakami, H.Murakami,, Acta Math. 186 (2001), 85–104

• On the volume conjecture for hyperbolic knots
  
  • Yoshiyuki Yokota, 2000

• The hyperbolic volume of knots from quantum dilogarithm
  
  • R. M. Kashaev, 1996

question and answers(Math Overflow)

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experts on the field

• http://arxiv.org/

links

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• The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• http://functions.wolfram.com/