Quantum Modularity for a Closed Hyperbolic 3-Manifold

This paper proves quantum modularity of both functions from $\mathbb{Q}$ and $q$-series associated to the closed manifold obtained by $-\frac{1}{2}$ surgery on the figure-eight knot, $4_1(-1,2)$. In a sense, this is a companion to work of Garoufalidis–Zagier, where similar statements were studied in detail for some simple knots. It is shown that quantum modularity for closed manifolds provides a unification of Chen–Yang's volume conjecture with Witten's asymptotic expansion conjecture. Additionally we show that $4_1(-1,2)$ is a counterexample to previous conjectures of Gukov–Manolescu relating the Witten–Reshetikhin–Turaev invariant and the $\widehat{Z}(q)$ series. This could be reformulated in terms of a “strange identity”, which gives a volume conjecture for the $\widehat{Z}$ invariant. Using factorisation of state integrals, we give conjectural but precise $q$-hypergeometric formulae for generating series of Stokes constants of this manifold. We find that the generating series of Stokes constants is related to the $3\mathrm{d}$ index of $4_1(-1,2)$ proposed by Gang–Yonekura. This extends the equivalent conjecture of Garoufalidis–Gu–Mariño for knots to closed manifolds. This work appeared in a similar form in the author's Ph.D. Thesis.