Octahedral developing of knot complement II: Ptolemy coordinates and applications

DOI10.1142/S0218216523500578MaRDI QIDQ6056827zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hyuk Kim, Seonhwa Kim, Seokbeom Yoon

Publication date 4 October 2023

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06622

zbMATH Keywords

diagramsknotsoctahedral decompositionsPtolemy coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) Finite-type and quantum invariants, topological quantum field theories (TQFT) (57K16) Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31) Hyperbolic 3-manifolds (57K32) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: It is known that a knot complement (minus two points) decomposes into ideal octahedra with respect to a given knot diagram. In this paper, we study the Ptolemy variety for such an octahedral decomposition in perspective of Thurston's gluing equation variety. More precisely, we compute explicit Ptolemy coordinates in terms of segment and region variables, the coordinates of the gluing equation variety motivated from the volume conjecture. As a consequence, we present an explicit formula for computing the obstruction to lifting a $(mathrmPSL(2,mathbbC),P)$-representation of the knot group to a $(mathrmSL(2,mathbbC),P)$-representation. We also present a diagrammatic algorithm to compute a holonomy representation of the knot group.

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