Suppression conjecture for colored Jones polynomials of Whitehead doubles

Let KK be a nontrivial knot, let NN be a positive integer, and let nn satisfy nN2<Nδ\left|n-\frac{N}{2}\right|<N^\delta for some 12<δ<23\frac{1}{2}<\delta<\frac{2}{3}. Write J^K,2n+1\hat{J}_{K,2n+1} for the polynomial used in the paper, and evaluate it and its derivative at e2π1Ne^{\frac{2\pi\sqrt{-1}}{N}}. Suppression conjecture. For every nontrivial knot KK,

J^K,2n+1(e2π1N)tddtJ^K,2n+1(e2π1N)=o(N2)\frac{\hat{J}_{K,2n+1}\left(e^{\frac{2\pi\sqrt{-1}}{N}}\right)}{t\frac{d}{dt}\hat{J}_{K,2n+1}\left(e^{\frac{2\pi\sqrt{-1}}{N}}\right)}=o(N^{-2})

uniformly on nN2<Nδ\left|n-\frac{N}{2}\right|<N^\delta for some 12<δ<23\frac{1}{2}<\delta<\frac{2}{3}. The conjecture formalizes the expected suppression of the undifferentiated term in the satellite-knot summation; the paper proves the relevant estimates only for the torus-knot family under consideration, so the assertion for general nontrivial knots remains open.

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Hao Zheng, “Proof of the volume conjecture for Whitehead doubles of a family of torus knots”, arXiv:math/0508138 (2006).

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