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On categorification of Stokes coefficients in Chern-Simons theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-03-20 v1 Mathematical Physics Geometric Topology math.MP Quantum Algebra Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We consider a finite-dimensional oscillatory integral which provides a "finite-dimensional model" for analytically continued SU(2)SU(2) Chern-Simons theory on closed 3-manifolds that are described by plumbing trees. This model allows an efficient description of Stokes phenomenon for perturbative expansions in Chern-Simons theory around classical solutions - SL(2,C)SL(2,\mathbb{C}) flat connections. Moreover, the Stokes coefficients can be categorified, i.e. promoted to graded vector spaces, in terms of this finite-dimensional model. At least naively, the categorification gives BPS spectrum of 5d maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on the 3-manifold times a line with appropriate boundary conditions. We also comment on necessity of taking into account "flat connections at infinity" to capture Stokes phenomenon for certain 3-manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.2403.12128,
  title  = {On categorification of Stokes coefficients in Chern-Simons theory},
  author = {Sergei Gukov and Pavel Putrov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.12128},
  year   = {2024}
}

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79 pages, 27 figures