All order asymptotics of hyperbolic knot invariants from non-perturbative topological recursion of A-polynomials
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instance of: scholarly article
title: All order asymptotics of hyperbolic knot invariants from non-perturbative topological recursion of A-polynomials
zbMATH Open document ID: 1335.57019
DOI: 10.4171/QT/60
author: Gaëtan Borot
author: Bertrand Eynard
published in: Quantum Topology
publication date: 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2261
review text: In the 1990's, \textit{E. Witten} famously identified Chern-Simons theory on 3-manifolds as arising from topological string theory of the cotangent bundle in [Chern-Simons gauge theory as a string theory, in: \textit{H. Hofer} (ed.) et al., The Floer memorial volume. Basel: Birkhäuser. Prog. Math. 133, 637--678 (1995; Zbl 0844.58018)]. More recently in [\textit{V. Bouchard} et al., Commun. Math. Phys. 287, No. 1, 117--178 (2009; Zbl 1178.81214)], Bouchard, Klemm, Marino, and Pasquetti showed that amplitudes in topological string theory can be computed using the topological recursion of \textit{B. Eynard} and \textit{N. Orantin} defined in [Commun. Number Theory Phys. 1, No. 2, 347--452 (2007; Zbl 1161.14026)]. In light of this work, Dijkgraaf, Fuji, and Manabe conjectured that the topological recursion's wave function applied to the \(SL_2(\mathbb C)\) character variety of a knot complement should coincide with the colored Jones polynomial in [\textit{R. Dijkgraaf} et al., Nucl. Phys., B 849, No. 1, 166--211 (2011; Zbl 1215.81082)]. However their theory required the introduction of ad hoc constants in order to obtain a correct formula. Here, the authors propose an analogous approach using a non-perturbative wave function defined by \textit{B. Eynard} and \textit{M. Mariño} in [J. Geom. Phys. 61, No. 7, 1181--1202 (2011; Zbl 1215.81084)]. They conjecture that using this wave function applied to the \(SL_2(\mathbb C)\) character variety of a knot complement should coincide with the colored Jones polynomial without the introduction of constants. They verify this for the figure eight knot and for the once-punctured torus bundle \(L^2R\).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M27
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 15B52
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T70
zbMATH DE Number: 6436532
zbMATH Keywords: knot invariants
zbMATH Keywords: all-order asymptotics
zbMATH Keywords: A-polynomial
zbMATH Keywords: A-hat polynomial
zbMATH Keywords: topological recursion
zbMATH Keywords: non-perturbative effects
reviewed by: Cynthia L. Curtis
MaRDI profile type: Publication
arXiv ID: 1205.2261
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