Relations between Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev and nonsemisimple \(\mathfrak{sl}(2)\) 3-manifold invariants (Q2351925)

In [\textit{F. Costantino} et al., J. Topol. 7, No. 4, 1005--1053 (2014; Zbl 1320.57016)], the authors defined two families of Reshetikhin-Turaev-like invariants of closed oriented \(3\)-manifolds containing links, \(N_r(M,T,\omega)\) and \(N^0_r(M,T,\omega)\), associated to a non-semi-simple category of representations of a quantum group related to \(\mathfrak{sl}(2)\). The paper under review conjectures that \(N^0_r(M,T,\omega)\) indeed essentially coincides with a mild generalization of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant. The conjecture is proven when the \(3\)-manifold \(M\) is not a rational homology sphere and when \(M\) is a rational homology sphere obtained by surgery on a knot in \(S^3\) or is a connected sum of such manifolds.