Resurgence of Faddeev's quantum dilogarithm

DOI10.4171/IRMA/33-1/14arXiv2008.12465MaRDI QIDQ6347901FDOQ6347901

Publication date: 27 August 2020

Abstract: The quantum dilogarithm function of Faddeev is a special function that plays a key role as the building block of quantum invariants of knots and 3-manifolds, of quantum Teichm"uller theory and of complex Chern-Simons theory. Motivated by conjectures on resurgence and recent interest in wall-crossing phenomena, we prove that the Borel summation of a formal power series solution of a linear difference equation produces Faddeev's quantum dilogarithm. Along the way, we give an explicit formula for the meromorphic function in Borel plane, locate its poles and residues, and describe the Stokes phenomenon of its Laplace transforms along the Stokes rays.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Finite-type and quantum invariants, topological quantum field theories (TQFT) (57K16) Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31)

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