Volume function and Mahler measure of exact polynomials

DOI10.1112/S0010437X21007016zbMATH Open1469.11046arXiv1804.01395OpenAlexW3154543618MaRDI QIDQ3389461FDOQ3389461

Antonin Guilloux, Julien Marché

Publication date: 10 May 2021

Published in: Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a class of 2-variable polynomials called exact polynomials which contains $A$-polynomials of knot complements. The Mahler measure of these polynomials can be computed in terms of a volume function defined on the vanishing set of the polynomial. We prove that the local extrema of the volume function are on the 2-dimensional torus and give a closed formula for the Mahler measure in terms of these extremal values. This formula shows that the Mahler measure of an irreducible and exact polynomial divided by $pi$ is greater than the amplitude of the volume function. We also prove a $K$-theoretical criterium for a polynomial to be a factor of an $A$-polynomial and give a topological interpretation of its Mahler measure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01395

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic geometryK-theoryamoeba\(A\)-polynomialMahler measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials in number theory (11C08)

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Uses Software

• PHCpack
• SageMath
• SnapPy

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