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We study the asymptotic expansion of the 6j-symbol using the Schulten-Gordon recursion relations. We focus on the particular case of the isosceles tetrahedron and we provide explicit formulas for up to the third order corrections beyond the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-25 Maite Dupuis , Etera R. Livine

The purpose of this paper is to provide definitions for, and proofs of, the asymptotic formulae given by Edmonds, which relate the 3j and 6j symbols to rotation matrices.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 James P. M. Flude

We prove, in the case of hyperbolic 3-space, a couple of conjectures raised by J. J. Seidel in "On the volume of a hyperbolic simplex", Stud. Sci. Math. Hung. 21, 243-249, 1986. These conjectures concern expressing the volume of an ideal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Omar Chavez Cussy , Carlos H. Grossi

Horn's problem is concerned with characterizing the eigenvalues $(a,b,c)$ of Hermitian matrices $(A,B,C)$ satisfying the constraint $A+B=C$ and forming the edges of a triangle in the space of Hermitian matrices. It has deep connections to…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Anton Alekseev , Matthias Christandl , Thomas C. Fraser

We will attach a scalar invariant to a tetrahedron whose edges are labelled by irreducible representations of a ternary orthogonal group $\mathrm{SO}_3$ over a local field. This generalizes the $6j$ symbol whose theory was developed by…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Akshay Venkatesh , X. Griffin Wang

In the context of spinfoam models for quantum gravity, we investigate the asymptotical behavior of the 6j-symbol at next-to-leading order. We compute it analytically and check our results against numerical calculations. The 6j-symbol is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 Maite Dupuis , Etera R. Livine

We consider the asymptotics of the Turaev-Viro and the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of a hyperbolic $3$-manifold, evaluated at the root of unity $\exp({2\pi\sqrt{-1}}/{r})$ instead of the standard $\exp({\pi\sqrt{-1}}/{r})$. We present…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-07-11 Qingtao Chen , Tian Yang

On basis of generalized 6j-symbols we give a formulation of topological quantum field theories for 3-manifolds including observables in the form of coloured graphs. It is shown that the 6j-symbols associated with deformations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Anna Beliakova , Bergfinnur Durhuus

Explicit expressions are found for the $6j$ symbols in symmetric representations of quantum $\mathfrak{su}_N$ through appropriate hypergeometric Askey-Wilson (q-Racah) polynomials. This generalizes the well-known classical formulas for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 A. Mironov , A. Morozov , A. Sleptsov

We present the asymptotic formula for the Wigner 9j-symbol, valid when all quantum numbers are large, in the classically allowed region. As in the Ponzano-Regge formula for the 6j-symbol, the action is expressed in terms of lengths of edges…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-25 Hal M. Haggard , Robert G. Littlejohn

We relate the semiclassical asymptotics of the 6j symbols for the representation theory of the quantized enveloping algebra U_q(sl_2) at q a primitive root of unity, or q positive real, to the geometry of non-Euclidean tetrahedra. The…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuka U. Taylor , Christopher T. Woodward

We present new asymptotic formulas for the Wigner $15j$-symbol with two, three, or four small quantum numbers, and provide numerical evidence of their validity. These formulas are of the WKB form and are of a similar nature as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Liang Yu

We identify the q-series associated to an 1-efficient ideal triangulation of a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold by Frohman and Kania-Bartoszynska with the 3D-index of Dimofte-Gaiotto-Gukov. This implies the topological invariance of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Stavros Garoufalidis , Roland van der Veen

In the paper an explicit formula for an arbitrary $6j$-symbol for finite-dimensional irreducible representations of the algebra $\mathfrak{gl}_3$ is derived. A $6j$-symbol is written as a result of substitution of $\pm 1$ into a series of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-16 D. V. Artamonov

For a compact right-angled polyhedron $R$ in $\mathbb H^3$ denote by $\operatorname{vol} (R)$ the volume and by $\operatorname{vert} (R)$ the number of vertices. Upper and lower bounds for $\operatorname{vol} (R)$ in terms of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Dušan Repovš , Andrei Vesnin

We consider a compact hyperbolic tetrahedron of a general type. It is a convex hull of four points called vertices in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^3$. It can be determined by the set of six edge lengths up to isometry. For further…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Nikolay Abrosimov , Bao Vuong

This paper initiates the study of invariants of links associated to infinite-dimensional representations of $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$ using graphical representation for quantum $6j$-symbols, the shadow world. We obtain formulae for…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Dmitry Solovyev

Let $\mathcal{W}_N$ be a quantized Borel subalgebra of $U_q(sl(2,\mc))$, specialized at a primitive root of unity $\omega = \exp(2i\pi/N)$ of odd order $N >1$. One shows that the $6j$-symbols of cyclic representations of $\mathcal{W}_N$ are…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephane Baseilhac

A new uniform asymptotic approximation for the Wigner $6j$ symbol is given in terms of Wigner rotation matrices ($d$-matrices). The approximation is uniform in the sense that it applies for all values of the quantum numbers, even those near…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Robert G. Littlejohn , Liang Yu

We define a family of Turaev-Viro type invariants of hyperbolic $3$-manifolds with totally geodesic boundary from the $6j$-symbols of the modular double of $\mathrm U_{q}\mathfrak{sl}(2;\mathbb R)$, and prove that these invariants decay…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Tianyue Liu , Shuang Ming , Xin Sun , Baojun Wu , Tian Yang