Quantum Invariants
Quantum Invariants

Author: Tomotada Ohtsuki

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9810246757

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This book provides an extensive and self-contained presentation of quantum and related invariants of knots and 3-manifolds. Polynomial invariants of knots, such as the Jones and Alexander polynomials, are constructed as quantum invariants, i.e. invariants derived from representations of quantum groups and from the monodromy of solutions to the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation. With the introduction of the Kontsevich invariant and the theory of Vassiliev invariants, the quantum invariants become well-organized. Quantum and perturbative invariants, the LMO invariant, and finite type invariants of 3-manifolds are discussed. The Chern-Simons field theory and the Wess-Zumino-Witten model are described as the physical background of the invariants.

Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds
Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds

Author: Vladimir G. Touraev

Publisher: de Gruyter

Published: 2016-07-11

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 9783110442663

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The third edition of this monograph provides a systematic treatment of topological quantum field theories in three dimensions, inspired by the discovery of the Jones polynomial of knots, the Witten-Chern-Simons field theory, and the theory of quantum groups. The author, one of the leading experts in the subject, gives a rigorous and self-contained exposition of fundamental algebraic and topological concepts that emerged in this theory.