Asymptotics of Nahm sums at roots of unity

DOI10.1007/S11139-020-00266-XzbMATH Open1479.57031arXiv1812.07690OpenAlexW3044926176MaRDI QIDQ829649FDOQ829649

Authors: Stavros Garoufalidis, Don Zagier 

Publication date: 6 May 2021

Published in: The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a formula for the radial asymptotics to all orders of the special $q$-hypergeometric series known as Nahm sums at complex roots of unity. This result is used in~cite{CGZ} to prove one direction of Nahm's conjecture relating the modularity of Nahm sums to the vanishing of a certain invariant in $K$-theory. The power series occurring in our asymptotic formula are identical to the conjectured asymptotics of the Kashaev invariant of a knot once we convert Neumann-Zagier data into Nahm data, suggesting a deep connection between asymptotics of quantum knot invariants and asymptotics of Nahm sums that will be discussed further in a subsequent publication.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07690

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotics\(K\)-theorymodular functionsKashaev invariantBloch groupNahm's conjecture\(q\)-hypergeometric sumsNahm sumsradial asymptotics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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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