DIFFERENCE AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS FOR THE COLORED JONES FUNCTION

DOI10.1142/S0218216508006245MaRDI QIDQ3519640zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stavros Garoufalidis

Publication date 19 August 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306229

zbMATH Keywords

colored Jones functionholonomic functionKauffman bracket skein moduleloop expansion

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Abstract: The colored Jones function of a knot is a sequence of Laurent polynomials. It was shown by TTQ. Le and the author that such sequences are $q$-holonomic, that is, they satisfy linear $q$-difference equations with coefficients Laurent polynomials in $q$ and $q^n$. We show from first principles that $q$-holonomic sequences give rise to modules over a $q$-Weyl ring. Frohman-Gelca-LoFaro have identified the latter ring with the ring of even functions of the quantum torus, and with the Kauffman bracket skein module of the torus. Via this identification, we study relations among the orthogonal, peripheral and recursion ideal of the colored Jones function, introduced by the above mentioned authors. In the second part of the paper, we convert the linear $q$-difference equations of the colored Jones function in terms of a hierarchy of linear ordinary differential equations for its loop expansion. This conversion is a version of the WKB method, and may shed some information on the problem of asymptotics of the colored Jones function of a knot.Final version. To appear in the Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications.

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