The descendant colored Jones polynomials

Abstract

We discuss two realizations of the colored Jones polynomials of a knot, one appearing in an unnoticed work of the second author in 1994 on quantum R-matrices at roots of unity obtained from solutions of the pentagon identity, and another formulated in terms of a sequence of elements of the Habiro ring appearing in recent work of D. Zagier and the first author on the Refined Quantum Modularity Conjecture.