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Peacock patterns and resurgence in complex Chern-Simons theory

Geometric Topology 2022-04-08 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The partition function of complex Chern-Simons theory on a 3-manifold with torus boundary reduces to a finite dimensional state-integral which is a holomorphic function of a complexified Planck's constant τ\tau in the complex cut plane and an entire function of a complex parameter uu. This gives rise to a vector of factorially divergent perturbative formal power series whose Stokes rays form a peacock-like pattern in the complex plane. We conjecture that these perturbative series are resurgent, their trans-series involve two non-perturbative variables, their Stokes automorphism satisfies a unique factorization property and that it is given explicitly in terms of a fundamental matrix solution to a (dual) linear qq-difference equation. We further conjecture that entries of the Stokes automorphism matrix are the 3D-indices of Dimofte-Gaiotto-Gukov. We provide proofs of our statements regarding the qq-difference equations and their properties of their fundamental solutions and illustrate our conjectures regarding the Stokes matrices with numerical calculations for the two simplest hyperbolic 414_1 and 525_2 knots.

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@article{arxiv.2012.00062,
  title  = {Peacock patterns and resurgence in complex Chern-Simons theory},
  author = {Stavros Garoufalidis and Jie Gu and Marcos Marino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00062},
  year   = {2022}
}

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68 pages. Typos corrected, references added

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