Geometric triangulations and the Teichmüller TQFT volume conjecture for twist knots

DOI10.4171/QT/178MaRDI QIDQ6062673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Fathi Ben Aribi, François Guéritaud, Eiichi Piguet-Nakazawa

Publication date 6 November 2023

Published in Quantum Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09480

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldshyperbolic volumequantum topologysaddle point methodTeichmüller TQFTtriangulationstwist knotsvolume conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) Finite-type and quantum invariants, topological quantum field theories (TQFT) (57K16) Hyperbolic 3-manifolds (57K32) Triangulating (57R05)

Abstract: We construct a new infinite family of ideal triangulations and H-triangulations for the complements of twist knots, using a method originating from Thurston. These triangulations provide a new upper bound for the Matveev complexity of twist knot complements. We then prove that these ideal triangulations are geometric. The proof uses techniques of Futer and the second author, which consist in studying the volume functional on the polyhedron of angle structures. Finally, we use these triangulations to compute explicitly the partition function of the Teichm"uller TQFT and to prove the associated volume conjecture for all twist knots, using the saddle point method.

Review text

The authors find a new infinite family of geometric ideal triangulations and \(H\)-triangulations for twist knot complements, and use them to compute the Andersen-Kashaev Teichmüller TQFT invariants and to prove the corresponding volume conjecture for all twist knots. Here, an \(H\)-triangulation of the pair \((S^3,K)\) where \(K\) is a knot in \(\mathcal S^3\), is a triangulation of \(S^3\) by compact tetrahedra with \(K\) represented by a single edge. More precisely, let \(K_n\) be the \(n\)-th twist knot. Then the authors proved that: \bigskip \textbf{Theorem 1.2} For every \(n>2,\) there exist an ideal triangulation \(X_n\) of the twist knot complement \(S^3\setminus K_n\) with \(\lfloor \frac{n+4}{2}\rfloor\) tetrahedra and a \(H\)-triangulation \(Y_n\) of the pair \((S^3; K_n)\) with \(\lfloor \frac{n+6}{2}\rfloor\) tetrahedra. Moreover, the edges of all these triangulations admit orientations for which no triangle is a cycle. \bigskip \textbf{Theorem 1.3} For every \(n>2,\) \(X_n\) is geometric. \bigskip \textbf{Theorem 1.5} For every \(n\geq 2,\) we have the following limit: \[ \lim_{ h\to 0^+}2\pi h \log|J_{X_n}(h,0)|=-\mathrm{Vol}(S^3\setminus K_n), \] where \(J_{X_n}(h,0)\) is the Teichmüller TQFT invariant.

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