Pavel Putrov ( ICTP “The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics”) in Trieste, Italy- “Counting solutions of Kapustin-Witten equations on a 3-manifold times a line”

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In my talk I will first review the interpretation of the counts of
solutions of Kapustin-Witten equations on a 3-manifold times a line as
Stokes coefficients associated to the perturbative expansion of
Chern-Simons theory. These counts can be naturally combined into
q-series with integral coefficents, labelled by an ordered pair of flat
connections. I will then present an explicit algorithm/formula for
computing them for a large class of closed 3-manifolds. If time permits
I will also make some comments about categorification of these counts
and relation to Fukaya-Seidel category of connections on the 3-manifold.