Guts of surfaces and the colored Jones polynomial

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-33302-6MaRDI QIDQ455380zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Futer, Efstratia Kalfagianni, Jessica S. Purcell

Publication date 5 October 2012

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

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

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)

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.

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

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