Conjecture on the limiting expected volume per crossing of random alternating link diagrams

Let Voln\mathit{Vol}_n denote the hyperbolic volume of a random alternating link diagram with nn crossings, and let E[Voln]\mathbb{E}[\mathit{Vol}_n] be its expectation. Limiting expected-volume conjecture. The expectation of the hyperbolic volume per crossing,

1nE[Voln]\frac{1}{n}\mathbb{E}[\mathit{Vol}_n]

converges to a limiting value as nn\to\infty. The preceding bounds show that the expected volume grows linearly up to lower-order terms, but convergence of the expected volume per crossing is unknown.

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Malik Obeidin, “Volumes of Random Alternating Link Diagrams”, arXiv:1611.04944 (2017).

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