Chern-Simons approach to three-manifold invariants
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-22 v2 Quantum Algebra
Abstract
% A new, formal, non-combinatorial approach to invariants of % three-dimensional manifolds of Reshetikhin, Turaev and % Witten in the framework of non-perturbative topological % quantum Chern-Simons theory, corresponding to an arbitrary % compact simple Lie group, is presented. A direct % implementation of surgery instructions in the context of % quantum field theory is proposed. An explicit form of the % specialization of the invariant to the group SU(2) is % derived, and shown to agree with the result of Lickorish. % % AMS subject classifications (1991): 57M25, 57N10, 57R65, 81T13.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9301091,
title = {Chern-Simons approach to three-manifold invariants},
author = {Boguslaw Broda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9301091},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages