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Interactions Between Hyperbolic Geometry, Quantum Topology and Number Theory
June 3-19, 2009
Columbia University
New York, USA

Organizers
Abhijit Champanerkar (CSI, CUNY), Oliver Dasbach (LSU), Effie Kalfagianni (MSU), Ilya Kofman (CSI, CUNY), Walter Neumann (Barnard College, Columbia U.), Neal Stoltzfus (LSU)

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A global formula for the Total SU(2)-Reidemeister torsion of a knot complement.
by
Charles Frohman
The University of Iowa
Coauthors: Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska

We give a global formula for the total Reidemeister Torsion of the complement of

a knot that looks like a version of the Turaev-Viro invariant. The

computation is based on a local-global principle.

Date received: June 9, 2009

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