• Refine Query
  • Source
  • Publication year
  • to
  • Language
  • 1
  • Tagged with
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
1

The growth of the quantum hyperbolic invariants of the figure eight knot

Mollé, Heather Michelle 01 December 2009 (has links)
Baseilhac and Benedetti have created a quantum hyperbolic knot invariant similar to the colored Jones polynomial. Their invariant is based on the polyhedral decomposition of the knot complement into ideal tetrahedra. The edges of the tetrahedra are assigned cross ratios based on their interior angles. Additionally, these edges are decorated with charges and flattenings which can be determined by assigning weights to the longitude and meridian of the boundary torus of a neighborhood of the knot. Baseilhac and Benedetti then use a summation of matrix dilogarithms to get their invariants. This thesis investigates these invariants for the figure eight knot. In fact, it will be shown that the volume of the complete hyperbolic structure of the knot serves as an upper bound for the growth of the invariants.

Page generated in 0.0194 seconds