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

DOI10.1215/00127094-3121185zbMATH Open1335.57034arXiv1111.2828OpenAlexW3101796646MaRDI QIDQ498671FDOQ498671

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

Publication date: 29 September 2015

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

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.

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

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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)

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