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The Habiro ring of a number field

Number Theory 2025-08-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Geometric Topology

Abstract

We introduce the Habiro ring of a number field K\mathbb{K} and modules over it graded by K3(K)K_3(\mathbb{K}). Elements of these modules are collections of power series at each complex root of unity that arithmetically glue with each other after applying a Frobenius endomorphism, and after dividing at each prime by a collection of series that depends solely on an element of the Bloch group. The main theorems of this paper concern number fields, their algebraic KK-theory and its regulator maps (Borel, pp-adic and \'etale), whereas the explicit collections of series are defined by a careful algebraic analysis of the infinite Pochhammer symbol at roots of unity. The origin of the above mentioned power series comes from perturbative Chern--Simons theory and by expansions of the admissible series of Kontsevich--Soibelman, both ultimately related to the infinite Pochhammer symbol. This link suggests that some Donaldson-Thomas invariants have arithmetic meaning and that some elements of the Habiro ring of a number field have enumerative meaning. Added subsection 1.1 explaining what the paper is about and subsection 1.8 explaining the relation to perturbative complex Chern-Simons theory.

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@article{arxiv.2412.04241,
  title  = {The Habiro ring of a number field},
  author = {Stavros Garoufalidis and Peter Scholze and Campbell Wheeler and Don Zagier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04241},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

73 pages, added subsection 1.1 explaining what the paper is about and subsection 1.8 explaining the relation to perturbative Chern-Simons theory