Distribution of Chern-Simons invariants

Abstract: Let

M

be a 3-manifold with a finite set

X (M)

of conjugacy classes of representations

h o : p i_{1} (M) o

SU

_{2}

. We study here the distribution of the values of the Chern-Simons function CS

: X (M) o m a t h b b R / 2 p i m a t h b b Z

. We observe in some examples that it resembles the distribution of quadratic residues. In particular for specific sequences of

3

-manifolds, the invariants tends to become equidistributed on the circle with white noise fluctuations of order

| X (M) |^{- 1 / 2}

. We prove that for a manifold with toric boundary the Chern-Simons invariants of the Dehn fillings

M_{p / q}

have the same behaviour when

p

and

q

go to infinity and compute fluctuations at first order.

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