Flat connections at infinity on knot surgery manifolds

Aditya Dwivedi, Archana Maji, Dmitry Noshchenko +1

$\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$ Chern-Simons theory on a closed 3-manifold is one of the most interesting, yet tractable examples of a QFT. On one hand, its non-perturbative structure is no…