Surgical invariants of four-manifolds

B. Broda

Surgical invariants of four-manifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-02-03 v2 alg-geom Quantum Algebra

Authors: B. Broda

Abstract

A new topological invariant of closed connected orientable four-dimensional manifolds is proposed. The invariant, constructed via surgery on a special link, is a four-dimensional counterpart of the celebrated SU(2) three-manifold invariant of Reshetikhin, Turaev and Witten.

Keywords

topological invariant four-manifold surgery link SU(2) invariant Reshetikhin-Turaev-Witten invariant

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9302092,
  title  = {Surgical invariants of four-manifolds},
  author = {B. Broda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9302092},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

8 pages, plaintex, Revised version (MARCH 1993): trivial factorization escaped

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