Asymptotics and 6j-symbols
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Recent interest in the Kashaev-Murakami-Murakami hyperbolic volume conjecture has made it seem important to be able to understand the asymptotic behaviour of certain special functions arising from representation theory — for example, of the quantum 6j -symbols for SU(2). In 1998 I worked out the asymptotic behaviour of the classical 6j -symbols, proving a formula involving the geometry of a Euclidean tetrahedron which was conjectured by Ponzano and Regge in 1968. In this note I will try to explain the methods and philosophy behind this calculation, and speculate on how similar techniques might be useful in studying the quantum case. AMS Classification 22E99; 81R05, 51M20
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