A gauge-field approach to 3- and 4-manifold invariants

Bogusław Broda

Banach Center Publications (1997)

  • Volume: 39, Issue: 1, page 201-209
  • ISSN: 0137-6934

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An approach to construction of topological invariants of the Reshetikhin-Turaev-Witten type of 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds in the framework of SU(2) Chern-Simons gauge theory and its hidden (quantum) gauge symmetry is presented.

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Broda, Bogusław. "A gauge-field approach to 3- and 4-manifold invariants." Banach Center Publications 39.1 (1997): 201-209. <http://eudml.org/doc/208663>.

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