The Degree Conjecture for torus knots

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Thao Vuong – Georgia Tech – tvuong@math.gatech.edu
Organizer
Stavros Garoufalidis
I will talk about some progress in proving the Degree Conjecture for torus knots. The conjecture states that the degree of a colored Jones polynomial colored by an irreducible representation of a simple Lie algebra g is locally a quadratic quasi-polynomial. This is joint work with Stavros Garoufalidis.