All order asymptotics of hyperbolic knot invariants from non-perturbative topological recursion of A-polynomials

DOI10.4171/QT/60MaRDI QIDQ2344896zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gaëtan Borot, Bertrand Eynard

Publication date 19 May 2015

Published in Quantum Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2261

zbMATH Keywords

A-hat polynomialA-polynomialall-order asymptoticsknot invariantsnon-perturbative effectstopological recursion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We propose a conjecture to compute the all-order asymptotic expansion of the colored Jones polynomial of the complement of a hyperbolic knot, J_N(q = exp(2u/N)) when N goes to infinity. Our conjecture claims that the asymptotic expansion of the colored Jones polynomial is a the formal wave function of an integrable system whose semiclassical spectral curve S would be the SL_2(C) character variety of the knot (the A-polynomial), and is formulated in the framework of the topological recursion. It takes as starting point the proposal made recently by Dijkgraaf, Fuji and Manabe (who kept only the perturbative part of the wave function, and found some discrepancies), but it also contains the non-perturbative parts, and solves the discrepancy problem. These non-perturbative corrections are derivatives of Theta functions associated to S, but the expansion is still in powers of 1/N due to the special properties of A-polynomials. We provide a detailed check for the figure-eight knot and the once-punctured torus bundle L^2R. We also present a heuristic argument inspired from the case of torus knots, for which knot invariants can be computed from a matrix model.

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 \(L^2R\).

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