Garoufalidis, S.; Thang T.Q. Lê; Mariño, M.
(Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications, 2008)
The free energy of a closed 3-manifold is a 2-parameter formal power series which encodes the perturbative Chern-Simons invariant (also known as the LMO invariant) of a closed 3-manifold with gauge group U(N) for arbitrary ...