Kashaev's conjecture and the chern-simons invariants of knots and links

Experimental Mathematics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 427-435

  Murakami, Hitoshi ^a   Murakami, Jun ^b   Okamoto, Miyuki ^c   Takata, Toshie ^d   Yokota, Yoshiyuki ^e  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c University of the Sacred Heart   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chern simons invariant; Colored jones polynomial; Kashaev s conjecture; Volume; Volume conjecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036943077     PISSN: 10586458     EISSN: 1944950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10586458.2002.10504485     Document Type: Article

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