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Colored Jones invariants of links in S3 # k S2 X S1 and the Volume Conjecture

Francesco Costantino

math.GTarXiv:math/0510048

Abstract

We extend the definition of the colored Jones polynomials to framed links and trivalent graphs in S3 # k S2 X S1 using a state-sum formulation based on Turaev's shadows. Then, we prove that the natural extension of the Volume Conjecture is true for an infinite family of hyperbolic links.

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