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Gauge-Invariant Operators for Singular Knots in Chern-Simons Gauge Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v1 Quantum Algebra q-alg

Abstract

We construct gauge invariant operators for singular knots in the context of Chern-Simons gauge theory. These new operators provide polynomial invariants and Vassiliev invariants for singular knots. As an application we present the form of the Kontsevich integral for the case of singular knots.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9712139,
  title  = {Gauge-Invariant Operators for Singular Knots in Chern-Simons Gauge Theory},
  author = {J. M. F. Labastida and Esther Perez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9712139},
  year   = {2016}
}

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44 pages, latex, 16 figures