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Date, time & place Tuesday 17:00 - 18:30 056Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Organizer(s) KAWAZUMI Nariya, KITAYAMA Takahiro, SAKASAI Takuya

2010/10/19

16:30-18:00   Room #002 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Jinseok Cho (Waseda University)
Optimistic limits of colored Jones invariants (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
Yokota made a wonderful theory on the optimistic limit of Kashaev
invariant of a hyperbolic knot
that the limit determines the hyperbolic volume and the Chern-Simons
invariant of the knot.
Especially, his theory enables us to calculate the volume of a knot
combinatorially from its diagram for many cases.

We will briefly discuss Yokota theory, and then move to the optimistic
limit of colored Jones invariant.
We will explain a parallel version of Yokota theory based on the
optimistic limit of colored Jones invariant.
Especially, we will show the optimistic limit of colored Jones
invariant coincides with that of Kashaev invariant modulo 2\\pi^2.
This implies the optimistic limit of colored Jones invariant also
determines the volume and Chern-Simons invariant of the knot, and
probably more information.

This is a joint-work with Jun Murakami of Waseda University.