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Hyperbolic Volume


The hyperbolic volume of the knot complement of a hyperbolic knot is a knot invariant. Adams (1994) lists the hyperbolic volumes for knots and links.

The knot complement of the figure eight knot has hyperbolic volume

 V=2Cl_2(1/3pi)=2.0298832...

(OEIS A091518; Borwein and Bailey 2003, p. 89), where Cl_2(x) is Clausen's integral. No closed forms are known for most (if not all) others.


See also

Hyperbolic Knot

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References

Adams, C. C. "Table of Knots, Links, and Knot and Link Invariants." Appendix in The Knot Book: An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots. New York: W. H. Freeman, pp. 279-290, 1994.Adams, C.; Hildebrand, M.; and Weeks, J. "Hyperbolic Invariants of Knots and Links." Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 326, 1-56, 1991.Borwein, J. and Bailey, D. Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century. Wellesley, MA: A K Peters, p. 89, 2003.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequence A091518 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Hyperbolic Volume." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HyperbolicVolume.html

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