Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: One of the main challenges in 3d-3d correspondence is that no existent approach offers a complete description of 3d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 SCFT T [M3] — or, rather, a “collection of SCFTs” as we refer to it in the paper — for all types of 3-manifolds that include, for example, a 3-torus, Brieskorn spheres, and hyperbolic surgeries on knots. The goal of this paper is to overcome this challenge by a more systematic study of 3d-3d correspondence that, first of all, does not rely heavily on any geometric structure on M3 and, secondly, is not limited to a particular supersymmetric partition function of T [M3]. In particular, we propose to describe such “collection of SCFTs” in terms of 3d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 gauge theories with “non-linear matter” fields valued in complex group manifolds. As a result, we are able to recover familiar 3-manifold invariants, such as Turaev torsion and WRT invariants, from twisted indices and half-indices of T [M3], and propose new tools to compute more recent q-series invariants $$ \hat{Z} $$ Z ̂ (M3) in the case of manifolds with b1> 0. Although we use genus-1 mapping tori as our “case study,” many results and techniques readily apply to more general 3-manifolds, as we illustrate throughout the paper.
Source: Journal of High Energy Physics
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Awards: G1099677550, FRG: Collaborative Research: Categorifying Quantum Three-Manifold Invariants, RESEARCH IN THEORETICAL HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND GOALS OF THE THEORETICAL HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS GROUP, RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND GOALS OF THE THEORETICAL HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS GROUP
OpenAlex ID: W2991165826