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A two-variable series for knot complements

Geometric Topology 2020-07-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

The physical 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 theory T[Y] was previously used to predict the existence of some 3-manifold invariants Z^a(q)\hat{Z}_{a}(q) that take the form of power series with integer coefficients, converging in the unit disk. Their radial limits at the roots of unity should recover the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants. In this paper we discuss how, for complements of knots in S3S^3, the analogue of the invariants Z^a(q)\hat{Z}_{a}(q) should be a two-variable series FK(x,q)F_K(x,q) obtained by parametric resurgence from the asymptotic expansion of the colored Jones polynomial. The terms in this series should satisfy a recurrence given by the quantum A-polynomial. Furthermore, there is a formula that relates FK(x,q)F_K(x,q) to the invariants Z^a(q)\hat{Z}_{a}(q) for Dehn surgeries on the knot. We provide explicit calculations of FK(x,q)F_K(x,q) in the case of knots given by negative definite plumbings with an unframed vertex, such as torus knots. We also find numerically the first terms in the series for the figure-eight knot, up to any desired order, and use this to understand Z^a(q)\hat{Z}_a(q) for some hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1904.06057,
  title  = {A two-variable series for knot complements},
  author = {Sergei Gukov and Ciprian Manolescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.06057},
  year   = {2020}
}

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79 pages; final version, to appear in Quantum Topology

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