Torus Knots and Minimal Models Revisited : Rational VOA characters from non-hyperbolic knots

Dongmin Gang, Byoungyoon Park, Huijoon Sohn

In 2003, Hikami and Kirillov uncovered an intriguing connection between torus knots ${\mathcal{K}}_{(P,Q)}$ and Virasoro minimal models $\mathcal{M}(P,Q)$ by relating the Kashaev inv…