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Distribution of Chern-Simons invariants

Geometric Topology 2017-10-26 v1

Abstract

Let MM be a 3-manifold with a finite set X(M)X(M) of conjugacy classes of representations ρ:π1(M)\rho:\pi_1(M)\toSU2_2. We study here the distribution of the values of the Chern-Simons function CS:X(M)R/2πZ:X(M)\to \mathbb{R}/2\pi\mathbb{Z}. We observe in some examples that it resembles the distribution of quadratic residues. In particular for specific sequences of 33-manifolds, the invariants tends to become equidistributed on the circle with white noise fluctuations of order X(M)1/2|X(M)|^{-1/2}. We prove that for a manifold with toric boundary the Chern-Simons invariants of the Dehn fillings Mp/qM_{p/q} have the same behaviour when pp and qq go to infinity and compute fluctuations at first order.

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@article{arxiv.1710.09258,
  title  = {Distribution of Chern-Simons invariants},
  author = {Julien Marché},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.09258},
  year   = {2017}
}

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