Hitoshi Murakami1,
1Department of Mathematics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan.

Yoshiyuki Yokota22Department of Mathematics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan.

Abstract
We calculate limits of the colored Jones polynomials of the figure-eight knot and conclude that in most cases they determine the volumes and the Chern-Simons invariants of the three-manifolds obtained by Dehn surgeries along it.