The Habiro ring of a number field
Abstract
We introduce the Habiro ring of a number field and modules over it graded by . 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 -theory and its regulator maps (Borel, -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