Quantum topology
by Kauffman, Louis H., Baadhio, Randy A.
fromK & E Series on Knots and Everything
by Kauffman, Louis H., Baadhio, Randy A.
fromK & E Series on Knots and Everything
by Kauffman, Louis H., Baadhio, Randy A.
fromSeries on knots and everything
by Kauffman, Louis H., Baadhio, Randy A.
fromSeries on knots and everything
by Kauffman, Louis H., Baadhio, Randy A.
fromSeries on knots and everything
by Kauffman, Louis H., Baadhio, Randy A.
fromSeries on knots and everything
by Kauffman, Louis H., Baadhio, Randy A.
fromK & E Series on Knots and Everything
by Kauffman, Louis H., Baadhio, Randy A.
fromK & E Series on Knots and Everything
This book constitutes a review volume on the relatively new subject of Quantum Topology. Quantum Topology has its inception in the 1984/1985 discoveries of new invariants of knots and links (Jones, Homfly and Kauffman polynomials). These invariants were rapidly connected with qu…
by Kauffman, Louis H., Baadhio, Randy A.
fromK & E Series on Knots and Everything
1. The ongoing quest for three-manifold invariants. 1.1. Volume as a three-manifold invariant. 1.2. The Chern-Simons invariant. 1.3. The [symbol]-invariant. 1.4. The Chern-Simons invariant revisited. 1.5. Outlook and summary. 1.6. References -- 2. Mapping class groups and 3-mani…
Anomalies are ubiquitous features in quantum field theories. They can ruin the consistency of such theories and put significant restrictions on their viability, especially in dimensions higher than four. Global gauge and gravitational anomalies are to date, one of the scant powe…