Introduction to the AJ Conjecture

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 269
Speaker
Anh Tran – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Meredith Casey

Please Note: This is part 1 of a two part talk. The second part will continue next week.

I will introduce the AJ conjecture (by Garoufalidis) which relates the A-polynomial and the colored Jones polynomial of a knot in the 3-sphere. Then I will verify it for the trefoil and the figure 8 knots (due to Garoufalidis) and torus knots (due to Hikami) by explicit calculations.