Hitoshi Murakami
(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Introduction to the Volume Conjecture, Part I
Interactions Between Hyperbolic Geometry, Quantum Topology and Number Theory
Columbia University, June 3 to June 19, 2009
Abstract: In these lectures, I will give an introduction to the Volume Conjecture and its generalizations.
In the first talk, I will give the definition of the colored Jones polynomial and state the conjecture. I also give a proof of the conjecture for the figure-eight knot.
Organizers: A. Champanerkar, O. Dasbach, E. Kalfagianni,
I. Kofman, N. Stoltzfus, W. Neumann