Proof of the volume conjecture for Whitehead chains

Abstract

We prove the volume conjecture for an infinite family of links called Whitehead chains that generalizes both the Whitehead link and the Borromean rings.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure. See also http://www.science.uva.nl/~riveen/papers.html New in version two is a computation for the constant term in the asymptotic expansion. The proof of lemma 5 has been omitted because it is almost the same as that of lemma