Volume conjecture and asymptotic expansion of q-series

Experimental Mathematics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 319-337

  Hikami, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hyperbolic volume; Jones polynomial; Rogers Ramanujan identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642365774     PISSN: 10586458     EISSN: 1944950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10586458.2003.10504502     Document Type: Article

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