Andersen–Kashaev's conjecture on Teichmüller TQFT knot invariants

Let MM be a closed oriented 3-manifold. For any hyperbolic knot KMK\thinspace\subset M, consider fully balanced shaped ideal triangulations XX of the complement of KK in MM and one-vertex shaped HH-triangulations YY of the pair (M,K)(M,K). Let τ:Δ1(Y)R\tau:\Delta_1(Y)\to\mathbb R take the value 00 on KK and 2π2\pi on every other edge. Andersen–Kashaev's conjecture. There exists a smooth function JM,K(,x)J_{M,K}(\hbar,x) on R>0×R\mathbb R_{>0}\times\mathbb R with the following properties: for every such XX, there are a gauge-invariant real linear combination of dihedral angles λ\lambda and a gauge-noninvariant real quadratic polynomial of dihedral angles φ\varphi such that

Z(X)=eiφRJM,K(,x)exλdx;Z_{\hbar}(X)=e^{i\frac{\varphi}{\hbar}}\int_{\mathbb R}J_{M,K}(\hbar,x)e^{-\frac{x\lambda}{\sqrt{\hbar}}}\,dx;

for every such YY, there is a real quadratic polynomial of dihedral angles φ\varphi such that

limωYτΦb(πωY(K)2πi)Z(Y)=eiφiπ/12JM,K(,0);\lim_{\omega_Y\to\tau}\Phi_{\operatorname{b}}\left(\frac{\pi-\omega_Y(K)}{2\pi i\sqrt{\hbar}}\right)Z_{\hbar}(Y)=e^{i\frac{\varphi}{\hbar}-i\pi/12}J_{M,K}(\hbar,0);

and

lim02πlogJM,K(,0)=vol(M\K).\lim_{\hbar\to0}2\pi\hbar\log\lvert J_{M,K}(\hbar,0)\rvert=-\operatorname{vol}(M\backslash K).

The conjecture proposes a common analytic object relating the partition functions of ideal and Hamiltonian triangulations and recovering hyperbolic volume through a semiclassical limit. Its status is not established in the supplied material.

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Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen and Jens-Jakob Kratmann Nissen, “Asymptotic aspects of the Teichmüller TQFT”, arXiv:1612.06982 (2016).

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