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The aim of the series is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over two decades, it offers a large library of mathematics including several important classics.
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Editorial Board
Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brasil
Victor P. Maslov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Walter D. Neumann, Columbia University, New York, USA
Markus J. Pflaum, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Dierk Schleicher, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Chapter
3.2 Framed Wilson line operators
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37 – 39
3.1 Abelian Chern-Simons theory
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37 – 37
Chapter 4. Non-Abelian Chern-Simons theory
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39 – 45
4.2 One-loop effective action
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45 – 48
4.1 Covariant quantization
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45 – 45
4.3 Higher order results
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48 – 53
Chapter 5. Observables and perturbation theory
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53 – 56
5.2 Perturbative computations
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56 – 58
5.1 Wilson line operators
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56 – 56
Chapter 6. Properties of the expectation values
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58 – 61
6.1 Holonomy matrix
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61 – 61
6.2 Discrete symmetries
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61 – 63
6.3 Satellite formulae
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63 – 64
Chapter 7. Ordering fermions and knot observables
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64 – 72
7.1 Ordering fermions
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72 – 72
7.2 Antiperiodic boundary conditions
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72 – 74
7.3 Knot observables
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74 – 78
Chapter 8. Braid group
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78 – 80
8.1 Artin braid group
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80 – 80
8.2 Hecke algebra
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80 – 83
Chapter 9. R-matrix and braids
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83 – 88
9.1 Quantum group approach
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88 – 88
9.2 Lie algebras and monodromy representations
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88 – 93
9.3 Quasi-Hopf algebra
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93 – 94
Chapter 10. Chern-Simons monodromies
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94 – 97
10.1 Schrödinger picture
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97 – 97
10.2 Universality of the link invariants
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97 – 101
10.3 The inexistent shift
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101 – 104
Chapter 11. Defining relations
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104 – 106
Chapter 12. The extended Jones polynomial
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106 – 116
11.1 Calculus rules
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106 – 106
12.2 Hopf link
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116 – 122
12.1 The values of the unknots
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116 – 116
12.3 Trefoil knot
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122 – 124
12.4 Figure-eight knot
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124 – 126
12.5 Connection with the Jones polynomial
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126 – 132
12.6 Bracket connection
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132 – 134
12.7 Reconstruction theorems
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134 – 136
Chapter 13. General properties
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136 – 141
13.2 Recovered field theory
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141 – 144
13.1 Twist variable
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141 – 141
13.3 Links in a solid torus
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144 – 147
13.4 Satellites
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147 – 152
13.5 Skein relation
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152 – 155
13.6 Projectors
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155 – 159
13.7 Borromean rings
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159 – 161
13.8 Connected sums
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161 – 167
13.9 Mutations
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167 – 170
Chapter 14. Unitary groups
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170 – 175
14.1 Fundamental skein relation
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175 – 175
14.2 Casimir operator
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175 – 178
14.3 Composite states
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178 – 182
14.4 Pattern links
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182 – 186
14.5 Higher dimensional representations
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186 – 190
14.6 Polynomial structure
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190 – 193
14.7 SU(3) examples
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193 – 195
Chapter 15. Reduced tensor algebra
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195 – 201
15.1 The restated solution
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201 – 201
15.2 Outlook
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201 – 204
15.3 Representation ring
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204 – 206
15.4 The three-sphere
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206 – 209
15.5 Reduced tensor algebra
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209 – 210
15.6 Roots of unity
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210 – 215
15.7 Special cases
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215 – 218
Chapter 16. Surgery on three-manifolds
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218 – 222
16.2 Solid tori
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222 – 223
16.1 Mapping class group of the torus
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222 – 222
16.3 Dehn surgery
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223 – 228
16.4 Links in three-manifolds
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228 – 231
16.5 Elementary surgeries
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231 – 234
16.6 Physical interpretation
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234 – 236
16.7 The fundamental group
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236 – 238
Chapter 17. Surgery and field theory
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238 – 242
17.1 Basic pairing
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242 – 242
17.2 Properties of the Hopf matrix
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242 – 245
17.3 Elementary surgery operators
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245 – 251
17.4 Surgery operator
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251 – 257
17.5 Surgery rules and Kirby moves
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257 – 260
Chapter 18. Observables in three-manifolds
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260 – 263
18.2 The manifold RP3
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263 – 272
18.1 The manifold S2 × S1
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263 – 263
18.3 Lens spaces
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272 – 276
18.4 The Poincaré manifold
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276 – 280
18.5 The manifold T2 § S1
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280 – 283
Chapter 19. Three-manifold invariant
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283 – 286
19.2 Values of the invariant
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286 – 292
19.1 Improved partition function
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286 – 286
Chapter 20. Abelian surgery invariant
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292 – 297
20.2 Abelian surgery rules
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297 – 303
20.1 Compact Abelian theory
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297 – 297
20.3 Abelian surgery invariant
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303 – 306
References
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306 – 317
Subject Index
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317 – 325