#### Volume 5, issue 1 (2005)

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Experimental evidence for the Volume Conjecture for the simplest hyperbolic non-2–bridge knot

### Stavros Garoufalidis and Yueheng Lan

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 5 (2005) 379–403
 arXiv: math.GT/0412331
##### Abstract

Loosely speaking, the Volume Conjecture states that the limit of the $n$th colored Jones polynomial of a hyperbolic knot, evaluated at the primitive complex $n$th root of unity is a sequence of complex numbers that grows exponentially. Moreover, the exponential growth rate is proportional to the hyperbolic volume of the knot. We provide an efficient formula for the colored Jones function of the simplest hyperbolic non-2–bridge knot, and using this formula, we provide numerical evidence for the Hyperbolic Volume Conjecture for the simplest hyperbolic non-2–bridge knot.

##### Keywords
knots, $q$–difference equations, asymptotics, Jones polynomial, Hyperbolic Volume Conjecture, character varieties, recursion relations, Kauffman bracket, skein module, fusion, SnapPea, m082
Primary: 57N10
Secondary: 57M25
##### Publication
Revised: 21 April 2005
Accepted: 6 May 2005
Published: 22 May 2005
##### Authors
 Stavros Garoufalidis School of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332-0160 USA http://www.math.gatech.edu/~stavros/ Yueheng Lan School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta GA 30332-0160 USA http://cns.physics.gatech.edu/~y-lan/