Published in |
Journal of Gökova Geometry Topology, Volume 5 (2011) |
Title |
The Kashaev and quantum hyperbolic link invariants |
Author |
Stéphane Baseilhac and Riccardo Benedetti |
Abstract |
We show that the link invariants derived from 3-dimensional
quantum hyperbolic geometry can be defined via
planar state sums based on link
diagrams and a new family of enhanced Yang-Baxter
operators (YBO) that we compute explicitly. By a local comparison of
the respective YBO's we show that these invariants coincide with
Kashaev's specializations of the colored Jones polynomials. As a
further application we disprove a conjecture about the
semi-classical limits of quantum hyperbolic invariants, by
showing that it conflicts with the existence of hyperbolic links
that verify the volume conjecture.
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Keywords |
Links, colored Jones polynomials, generalized Alexander invariants, quantum hyperbolic geometry, Yang-Baxter operators, volume conjecture |
Pages | 31-85 |
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Submitted: | Oct 6, 2011 |
Accepted: | Nov 25, 2011 |
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