An edge-type state integral over local field and A-polynomials

Abstract

To each local field, Garoufalidis and Kashaev recently associate a quantum dilogarithm that satisfies a pentagon identity and some symmetries. By employing an angled version of these quantum dilogarithms, they developed three generalized TQFTs, one given by a face state-integral and others by edge state integrals. These TQFTs produce distributional invariants for one-cusped three-manifolds, which are believed to be related to counting points on the A-polynomial curve. In this paper, we will calculate partition functions of an edge-type generalized TQFT over a local field for several examples and prove the appearance of A-polynomial in these new invariants.