Quantum Invariant, Modular Form, and Lattice Points

Abstract

We study the Witten--Reshetikhin--Turaev SU(2) invariant for the Seifert manifold with 4-singular fibers. We define the Eichler integrals of the modular forms with half-integral weight, and we show that the invariant is rewritten as a sum of the Eichler integrals. Using a nearly modular property of the Eichler integral, we give an exact asymptotic expansion of the WRT invariant in $N\to \infty$. We reveal that the number of dominating terms, which is the number of the non-vanishing Eichler integrals in a limit $\tau \to N\in \mathbb{Z}$, is related to that of lattice points inside 4-dimensional simplex, and we discuss a relationship with the irreducible representations of the fundamental group.

29 pages