The complex volume of SL(n,C)-representations of 3-manifolds

DOI10.1215/00127094-3121185MaRDI QIDQ498671zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stavros Garoufalidis, Dylan P. Thurston, Christian K. Zickert

Publication date 29 September 2015

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2828

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic \(K\)-theoryPtolemy coordinateshyperbolic \(3\)-manifoldsChern-Simons invariant\(\mathrm{SL}(n,\mathbb{C})\)-representationscensus manifoldsCheeger-Chern-Simons classcomplex volumeextended Bloch groupRogers dilogarithmSnapPy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Polylogarithms and relations with (K)-theory (11G55) (K)-theory of global fields (11R70) Étale cohomology, higher regulators, zeta and (L)-functions ((K)-theoretic aspects) (19F27)

Abstract: For a compact 3-manifold M with arbitrary (possibly empty) boundary, we give a parametrization of the set of conjugacy classes of boundary-unipotent representations of the fundamental group of M into SL(n,C). Our parametrization uses Ptolemy coordinates, which are inspired by coordinates on higher Teichmueller spaces due to Fock and Goncharov. We show that a boundary-unipotent representation determines an element in Neumann's extended Bloch group, and use this to obtain an efficient formula for the Cheeger-Chern-Simons invariant, and in particular for the volume. Computations for the census manifolds show that boundary-unipotent representations are abundant, and numerical comparisons with census volumes, suggest that the volume of a representation is an integral linear combination of volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. This is in agreement with a conjecture of Walter Neumann, stating that the Bloch group is generated by hyperbolic manifolds.

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