On the Kashaev invariant and the twisted Reidemeister torsion of two-bridge knots (Q2343338): Difference between revisions

In [Lett. Math. Phys. 39, No. 3, 269--275 (1997; Zbl 0876.57007)], \textit{R. M. Kashaev} conjectured that for any hyperbolic knot in the three-sphere, a certain limit of his invariant defined by using the quantum dilogarithm [\textit{R. M. Kashaev}, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 10, No. 19, 1409--1418 (1995; Zbl 1022.81574)] gives the hyperbolic volume of its complement. Note that \textit{J. Murakami} and the reviewer [Acta Math. 186, No. 1, 85--104 (2001; Zbl 0983.57009)] proved that Kashaev's invariant coincides with the \(N\)-colored Jones polynomial evaluated at the \(N\)-th root of unity. In the paper under review, the authors, motivated by the conjecture above, show that for a two-bridge knot the Hessian of a certain potential function of its hyperbolic structure derived from a knot diagram coincides with the square root of the Reidemeister torsion twisted by the adjoint action of the holonomy representation of the fundamental group of its complement to \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})\), associated with the meridian. They also show that the Hessian is invariant under the Reidemeister moves II and III under a certain condition.