Toroidal simplicial-volume conjecture for irreducible link complements

Let LT2×IL\subset T^2\times I be a link whose complement (T2×I)L(T^2\times I)\setminus L is irreducible, and let JnT(L;e2πi/n)J_n^T(L;e^{2\pi i/n}) be the toroidal colored Jones polynomial evaluated at e2πi/ne^{2\pi i/n}. Here Vol\operatorname{Vol} denotes simplicial volume, and n>0n>0 ranges over all odd integers.

Toroidal simplicial-volume conjecture.

limn2πnlogJnT(L;e2πi/n)=Vol((T2×I)L).\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{2\pi}{n}\log\left|J_n^T\left(L;e^{2\pi i/n}\right)\right|=\operatorname{Vol}\bigl((T^2\times I)\setminus L\bigr).

This extends the hyperbolic-complement conjecture to irreducible complements by using simplicial volume, which sums the hyperbolic volumes of the hyperbolic JSJ pieces. Its general validity is left open.

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Primary source

Joe Boninger, “A Quantum Invariant of Links in T^2 I with Volume Conjecture Behavior”, arXiv:2012.07782 (2021).

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