Guts of surfaces and the colored Jones polynomial

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-33302-6zbMATH Open1270.57002arXiv1108.3370OpenAlexW1794226506MaRDI QIDQ455380FDOQ455380

David Futer, Efstratia Kalfagianni, Jessica S. Purcell

Publication date: 5 October 2012

Published in: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This monograph derives direct and concrete relations between colored Jones polynomials and the topology of incompressible spanning surfaces in knot and link complements. Under mild diagrammatic hypotheses that arise naturally in the study of knot polynomial invariants (A- or B-adequacy), we prove that the growth of the degree of the colored Jones polynomials is a boundary slope of an essential surface in the knot complement. We show that certain coefficients of the polynomial measure how far this surface is from being a fiber in the knot complement; in particular, the surface is a fiber if and only if a particular coefficient vanishes. Our results also yield concrete relations between hyperbolic geometry and colored Jones polynomials: for certain families of links, coefficients of the polynomials determine the hyperbolic volume to within a factor of 4. Our approach is to generalize the checkerboard decompositions of alternating knots. Under mild diagrammatic hypotheses (A- or B-adequacy), we show that the checkerboard knot surfaces are incompressible, and obtain an ideal polyhedral decomposition of their complement. We employ normal surface theory to establish a dictionary between the pieces of the JSJ decomposition of the surface complement and the combinatorial structure of certain spines of the checkerboard surface (state graphs). Since state graphs have previously appeared in the study of Jones polynomials, our setting and methods create a bridge between quantum and geometric knot invariants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3370

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic geometrycolored Jones polynomialJSJ decompositionVolume Conjecturenormal surface theoryCabling ConjecturegutsSlope Conjecturestate sum invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02)

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• A Jones slopes characterization of adequate knots
• Non-Orientable Lagrangian Fillings of Legendrian Knots
• Slopes and colored Jones polynomials of adequate knots
• Factorial growth rates for the number of hyperbolic 3-manifolds of a given volume
• A slope conjecture for links
• Simplicial volume of links from link diagrams
• Guts, volume and skein modules of 3-manifolds
• On the fibration of augmented link complements
• Twist regions and coefficients stability of the colored Jones polynomial
• Stability properties of the colored Jones polynomial
• Combinatorics of link diagrams and volume
• Quasifuchsian state surfaces
• Bipyramids and bounds on volumes of hyperbolic links
• The leading coefficient of the \(L^2\)-Alexander torsion
• The spectra of volume and determinant densities of links
• The volume of positive braid links
• Lernaean knots and band surgery
• Extremal Khovanov homology of Turaev genus one links
• Slice‐torus link invariants, combinatorial invariants and positivity conditions
• A new condition on the Jones polynomial of a fibered positive link
• Semi-adequate closed braids and volume
• Fiber surfaces from alternating states
• Crosscap numbers and the Jones polynomial
• Normal and Jones surfaces of knots
• Crosscap number of knots and volume bounds
• Right-angled polyhedra and alternating links
• State graphs and fibered state surfaces
• \( \mathcal{Z} \)-compactifiable manifolds which are not pseudocollarable
• A survey on the Turaev genus of knots
• On the degree of the colored Jones polynomial
• The head and tail of the colored Jones polynomial for adequate knots
• A classification of spanning surfaces for alternating links
• Fiber detection for state surfaces
• Cancellations in the degree of the colored Jones polynomial
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• Volume and geometry of homogeneously adequate knots
• The slope conjecture for Montesinos knots
• Remarks on Jones Slopes and surfaces of knots
• Crosscap numbers of alternating knots via unknotting splices
• The strong slope conjecture and torus knots
• The strong slope conjecture for twisted generalized Whitehead doubles
• Geometry of alternating links on surfaces
• Cusp volumes of alternating knots on surfaces
• Repeated boundary slopes for 2-bridge knots

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• KnotInfo

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