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We renormalize the Chern-Simons invariant for convex-cocompact hyperbolic 3-manifolds by finding the asymptotics along an equidistance foliation. We prove that the metric Chern-Simons invariant has an exponentially divergent term given by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Dongha Lee

We formalize Feynman's construction of the quantum mechanical path integral. To do this, we shift the emphasis in differential geometry from the tangent bundle onto the pair groupoid. This allows us to use the van Est map and the piecewise…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Joshua Lackman

We introduce $ L $-functions attached to negative definite plumbed manifolds as the Mellin transforms of homological blocks. We prove that they are entire functions and their values at $ s=0 $ are equal to the Witten--Reshetikhin--Turaev…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Yuya Murakami

We give a short review of our construction of a higher-loop perturbative invariant of framed 3-manifolds, generalizing the perturbative Chern-Simons invariant of Witten-Axelrod-Singer, associated to an acyclic flat connection, to an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Pavel Mnev , Konstantin Wernli

We derive a simple classification of quantum spin Chern-Simons theories with gauge group T=U(1)^N. While the classical Chern-Simons theories are classified by an integral lattice the quantum theories are classified differently. Two quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitriy Belov , Gregory W. Moore

A general method for the construction of smooth flat connections on 3-manifolds is introduced. The procedure is strictly connected with the deduction of the fundamental group of a manifold M by means of a Heegaard splitting presentation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Enore Guadagnini , Philippe Mathieu , Frank Thuillier

I consider the semiclassical approximation of the graded Chern-Simons field theories describing certain systems of topological A type branes in the large radius limit of Calabi-Yau compactifications. I show that the semiclassical partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 C. I. Lazaroiu

We study the large $N$ expansion of twisted partition functions of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories arising from $N$ M5-branes wrapped on a hyperbolic 3-manifold, $M_3$. Via the 3d-3d correspondence, the partition functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-20 Dongmin Gang , Nakwoo Kim , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas

We refine and generalize the results of e-Print: 2307.10428 [hep-th], where evidence in favor of applying the non-Abelian localization method to handle the 4d Chern-Simons theory path integral formulation was presented. We show, via duality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 David M. Schmidtt

The proper action functional of (4k+3)-dimensional U(1)-Chern-Simons theory including the instanton sectors has a well known description: it is given on the moduli space of fields by the fiber integration of the cup product square of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-30 Domenico Fiorenza , Hisham Sati , Urs Schreiber

We consider Chern-Simons theory with complex gauge group and present a complete non-perturbative evaluation of the path integral (the partition function and certain expectation values of Wilson loops) on Seifert fibred 3-Manifolds. We use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-04 Matthias Blau , George Thompson

We show that both perturbative and non-perturbative parts of universal partition functions of Chern-Simons theory on 3d sphere are ratios of four over four Barnes' quadruple gamma functions with arguments given by linear combinations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 R. L. Mkrtchyan

We prove exact complexity dichotomies for two quantum invariants of closed oriented three-manifolds, with the categorical data fixed. For a modular category $\mathcal{C}$, computing the Reshetikhin--Turaev invariant $Z_{\mathcal{C}}(M)$…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Cśar Galindo

We introduce the notion of a flat extension of a connection $\theta$ on a principal bundle. Roughly speaking, $\theta$ admits a flat extension if it arises as the pull-back of a component of a Maurer-Cartan form. For trivial bundles over…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Andreas Čap , Keegan J. Flood , Thomas Mettler

We construct invertible field theories generalizing abelian prequantum spin Chern-Simons theory to manifolds of dimension 4k+3 endowed with a Wu structure of degree 2k+2. After analysing the anomalies of a certain discrete symmetry, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 Samuel Monnier

We prove that the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev (WRT) SO(3) invariant of an arbitrary 3-manifold M is always an algebraic integer. Moreover, we give a rational surgery formula for the unified invariant dominating WRT SO(3) invariants of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-04-14 Anna Beliakova , Thang T. Q. Le

We calculate $q$-dimension of $k$-th Cartan power of fundamental representation $\Lambda_0$, corresponding to affine root of affine simply laced Kac-Moody algebras, and show that in the limit $q\rightarrow 1 $, and with natural…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 R. L. Mkrtchyan

We propose a dictionary between geometry of triangulated 3-manifolds and physics of three-dimensional N=2 gauge theories. Under this duality, standard operations on triangulated 3-manifolds and various invariants thereof (classical as well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-23 Tudor Dimofte , Davide Gaiotto , Sergei Gukov

We analyse the Abelian $N=1$ super-Chern-Simons model coupled to parity-preserving matter in linear and non-linear gauges with exact BRST invariance. Then we analyse the theory in field/antifield formulation to discuss the model at quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-14 Sudhaker Upadhyay

In this article, we discuss a (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum field theory, for short TQFT, with a Verlinde basis. As a conclusion of this general theory, we have a Dehn surgery formula. We show that Turaev-Viro-Ocneanu TQFT has a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nobuya Sato , Michihisa Wakui