The Volume conjecture says that if $J_n(q)$ are the colored Jones polynomials of a knot $K \subset S^3$, then $$\lim_{N \to \infty} \frac{ 2 \pi}N \left\vert J_N(e^{2\pi i / N})\right\vert = vol(K)$$ Here we are assuming that the complement of $K$ is hyperbolic, and $vol(K)$ is its hyperbolic volume. (The normalization is that $J_N(q) = 1$ for the unknot.) I have an ignorant question about this:
Q: Is it obvious that this limit exists?
One thing that might be helpful for showing the limit exists is that the $J_n(q)$ satisfy a (generalized) recursion relation (this is a theorem of Garoufalidis and Le). More precisely, there are Laurent polynomials $a_i(-,-)$ such that $$ \sum_i a_i(q,q^N) J_{N+i}(q) = 0$$ (This is true for any $N$, and the $a_i$ don't depend on $N$.) But the existence of this recursion relation was proved several years after the volume conjecture.
