Chern-Simons invariants of 3-manifolds decomposed along tori and the circle bundle over the representation space of \(T^ 2\) (Q1801505)

Let \(Z\) be a closed 3-manifold and \(Z= X\cup_{\partial X=\partial Y} Y\) where \(X\) and \(Y\) are 3-manifolds with boundary a union of equal number of tori. The authors describe the Chern-Simons invariant for flat SU(2) and \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})\) connections on \(Z\) in terms of Chern-Simons invariants \(C_ X\), \(C_ Y\) and \(X\) and \(Y\). Here for a manifold \(X\) with toral boundaries \(c_ X\) is a lift \(c_ X: R(X)\to E(\partial X)\) of the restriction map \(R(X)\to R(\partial X)\), \(R(M)\) the representation space of \(\pi_ 1 M\), to an \(S^ 1\)-bundle \(E(\partial X)\to R(\partial X)\) which already appears in [\textit{T. R. Ramadas}, \textit{I. Singer} and \textit{J. Weitsman}, Commun. Math. Phys. 126, No. 2, 409-420 (1989; Zbl 0686.53066)]. They also develop a formula describing the difference between the Chern-Simons invariants of two representations lying on a path of representations in terms of the restriction of the boundary. This generalizes and reinterprets earlier work of the authors [Math. Ann. 287, No. 2, 343-367 (1990; Zbl 0681.57006)]. The results are used to compute the Chern-Simons invariants of certain graph-manifolds. In addition a formula of Yoshida relating the Chern-Simons invariant of the holonomy representation of a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold to the volume and Chern- Simons invariant of the metric connection is proved.