$\hat{Z}$ invariants at rational $\tau$

Abstract

$\hat{Z}$ invariants of 3-manifolds were introduced as series in $q=e^{2\pi i\tau }$ in order to categorify Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants corresponding to $\tau =1/k$. However modularity properties suggest that all roots of unity are on the same footing. The main result of this paper is the expression connecting Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants with $\hat{Z}$ invariants for $\tau \in \mathbb{Q}$. We present the reasoning leading to this conjecture and test it on various 3-manifolds.

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