Mahler measure and the Vol-Det conjecture

DOI10.1112/JLMS.12200zbMATH Open1428.57001arXiv1805.05490OpenAlexW2804249429WikidataQ123123186 ScholiaQ123123186MaRDI QIDQ4967969FDOQ4967969

Authors: Abhijit Champanerkar, Ilya Kofman, Matilde Lalín 

Publication date: 11 July 2019

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Vol-Det Conjecture relates the volume and the determinant of a hyperbolic alternating link in $S^3$. We use exact computations of Mahler measures of two-variable polynomials to prove the Vol-Det Conjecture for many infinite families of alternating links. We conjecture a new lower bound for the Mahler measure of certain two-variable polynomials in terms of volumes of hyperbolic regular ideal bipyramids. Associating each polynomial to a toroidal link using the toroidal dimer model, we show that every polynomial which satisfies this conjecture with a strict inequality gives rise to many infinite families of alternating links satisfying the Vol-Det Conjecture. We prove this new conjecture for six toroidal links by rigorously computing the Mahler measures of their two-variable polynomials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05490

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zbMATH Keywords

Mahler measurearithmetic topologyalternating links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic enumeration (05A16) Polylogarithms and relations with (K)-theory (11G55) PV-numbers and generalizations; other special algebraic numbers; Mahler measure (11R06) Knot theory (57K10) General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30)

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