Quantum dilogarithms over local fields and invariants of 3-manifolds
Abstract
To each local field (including the real or complex numbers) we associate a quantum dilogarithm and show that it satisfies a pentagon identity and some symmetries. Using an angled version of these quantum dilogarithms, we construct three generalized TQFTs in 2+1 dimensions, one given by a face state-integral and two given by edge state-integrals. Their partition functions rise to distributional invariants of 3-manifolds with torus boundary, conjecturally related to point counting of the -polynomial curve. The partition function of one of these face generalized TQFTs for the case of the real numbers can be expressed either as a multidimensional Barnes-Mellin integral or as a period on a curve which is conjecturally the -polynomial curve.
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@article{arxiv.2306.01331,
title = {Quantum dilogarithms over local fields and invariants of 3-manifolds},
author = {Stavros Garoufalidis and Rinat Kashaev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.01331},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
40 pages, 3 figures. Removed comment on p.31