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The resurgent structure of quantum knot invariants

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-06-30 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

The asymptotic expansion of quantum knot invariants in complex Chern-Simons theory gives rise to factorially divergent formal power series. We conjecture that these series are resurgent functions whose Stokes automorphism is given by a pair of matrices of qq-series with integer coefficients, which are determined explicitly by the fundamental solutions of a pair of linear qq-difference equations. We further conjecture that for a hyperbolic knot, a distinguished entry of those matrices equals to the Dimofte-Gaiotto-Gukov 3D-index, and thus is given by a counting of BPS states. We illustrate our conjectures explicitly by matching theoretically and numerically computed integers for the cases of the 414_1 and the 525_2 knots.

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@article{arxiv.2007.10190,
  title  = {The resurgent structure of quantum knot invariants},
  author = {Stavros Garoufalidis and Jie Gu and Marcos Marino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10190},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

minor corrections, 25 pages, 4 figures