Relative Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants, hyperbolic cone metrics and discrete Fourier transforms I

Abstract

We propose the Volume Conjecture for the relative Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of a closed oriented $3$-manifold with a colored framed link inside it whose asymptotic behavior is related to the volume and the Chern-Simons invariant of the hyperbolic cone metric on the manifold with singular locus the link and cone angles determined by the coloring. We prove the conjecture in the case that the ambient $3$-manifold is obtained by doing an integral surgery along some components of a fundamental shadow link and the complement of the link in the ambient manifold is homeomorphic to the fundamental shadow link complement, for sufficiently small cone angles. Together with Costantino and Thurston's result that all compact oriented $3$-manifolds with toroidal or empty boundary can be obtained by doing an integral surgery along some components of a suitable fundamental shadow link, this provides a possible approach of solving Chen-Yang's Volume Conjecture for the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of closed oriented hyperbolic $3$-manifolds. We also introduce a family of topological operations (the change-of-pair operations) that connect all pairs of a closed oriented $3$-manifold and a framed link inside it that have homeomorphic complements, which correspond to doing the partial discrete Fourier transforms to the corresponding relative Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants. As an application, we find a Poisson Summation Formula for the discrete Fourier transforms.