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FIELD
Math: HCMC
DATE
Dec 18 (Thu), 2025
TIME
10:00 ~ 11:00
PLACE
1423
SPEAKER
Kricker, Andrew
HOST
Kim, Wooyeon
INSTITUTE
Nanyang Technological University
TITLE
[HG_T]An introduction to the Garoufalidis-Kashaev meromorphic 3D-index and a conjecture for its asymptotics
ABSTRACT
In 2017 Garoufalidis and Kashaev defined a fascinating topological invariant which associates to a 3-manifold with toroidal boundary a meromorphic function of two complex variables. It is defined from an ideal triangulation by a "state-integral", where a state is an element of S^1 assigned to every edge of the triangulation and the integrand is a product of quantum dilogarithms obtained from the combinatorics of the triangulation. This invariant is a sort of generating function for the q-series 3D-index of Dimofte, Gaiotto and Gukov which arose in supersymmetric gauge theory.
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