Geometric triangulations and the Teichmüller TQFT volume conjecture for twist knots (Q6062673)

The authors find a new infinite family of geometric ideal triangulations and \(H\)-triangulations for twist knot complements, and use them to compute the Andersen-Kashaev Teichmüller TQFT invariants and to prove the corresponding volume conjecture for all twist knots. Here, an \(H\)-triangulation of the pair \((S^3,K)\) where \(K\) is a knot in \(\mathcal S^3\), is a triangulation of \(S^3\) by compact tetrahedra with \(K\) represented by a single edge. More precisely, let \(K_n\) be the \(n\)-th twist knot. Then the authors proved that: \bigskip \textbf{Theorem 1.2} For every \(n>2,\) there exist an ideal triangulation \(X_n\) of the twist knot complement \(S^3\setminus K_n\) with \(\lfloor \frac{n+4}{2}\rfloor\) tetrahedra and a \(H\)-triangulation \(Y_n\) of the pair \((S^3; K_n)\) with \(\lfloor \frac{n+6}{2}\rfloor\) tetrahedra. Moreover, the edges of all these triangulations admit orientations for which no triangle is a cycle. \bigskip \textbf{Theorem 1.3} For every \(n>2,\) \(X_n\) is geometric. \bigskip \textbf{Theorem 1.5} For every \(n\geq 2,\) we have the following limit: \[ \lim_{ h\to 0^+}2\pi h \log|J_{X_n}(h,0)|=-\mathrm{Vol}(S^3\setminus K_n), \] where \(J_{X_n}(h,0)\) is the Teichmüller TQFT invariant.