The Link Invariants of the Chern-Simons Field Theory :New Developments in Topological Quantum Field Theory ( De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics )

Publication subTitle :New Developments in Topological Quantum Field Theory

Publication series :De Gruyter Expositions in Mathematics

Author: E. Guadagnini  

Publisher: De Gruyter‎

Publication year: 1993

E-ISBN: 9783110879643

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110140286

Subject: O413.3 of the quantum many - body problem (核论)

Language: ENG

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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.

The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers wishing to thoroughly study the topic.

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

Chapter 1. Introduction

pp.:  1 – 15

1.2 Abelian Chern-Simons action

pp.:  15 – 19

2.1 Ambient and regular isotopy

pp.:  24 – 24

2.2 Link invariants

pp.:  24 – 28

2.3 Framing and satellites

pp.:  28 – 32

3.2 Framed Wilson line operators

pp.:  37 – 39

3.1 Abelian Chern-Simons theory

pp.:  37 – 37

Chapter 4. Non-Abelian Chern-Simons theory

pp.:  39 – 45

4.2 One-loop effective action

pp.:  45 – 48

4.1 Covariant quantization

pp.:  45 – 45

4.3 Higher order results

pp.:  48 – 53

Chapter 5. Observables and perturbation theory

pp.:  53 – 56

5.2 Perturbative computations

pp.:  56 – 58

5.1 Wilson line operators

pp.:  56 – 56

Chapter 6. Properties of the expectation values

pp.:  58 – 61

6.1 Holonomy matrix

pp.:  61 – 61

6.2 Discrete symmetries

pp.:  61 – 63

6.3 Satellite formulae

pp.:  63 – 64

Chapter 7. Ordering fermions and knot observables

pp.:  64 – 72

7.1 Ordering fermions

pp.:  72 – 72

7.2 Antiperiodic boundary conditions

pp.:  72 – 74

7.3 Knot observables

pp.:  74 – 78

Chapter 8. Braid group

pp.:  78 – 80

8.1 Artin braid group

pp.:  80 – 80

8.2 Hecke algebra

pp.:  80 – 83

Chapter 9. R-matrix and braids

pp.:  83 – 88

9.1 Quantum group approach

pp.:  88 – 88

9.2 Lie algebras and monodromy representations

pp.:  88 – 93

9.3 Quasi-Hopf algebra

pp.:  93 – 94

Chapter 10. Chern-Simons monodromies

pp.:  94 – 97

10.1 Schrödinger picture

pp.:  97 – 97

10.2 Universality of the link invariants

pp.:  97 – 101

10.3 The inexistent shift

pp.:  101 – 104

Chapter 11. Defining relations

pp.:  104 – 106

Chapter 12. The extended Jones polynomial

pp.:  106 – 116

11.1 Calculus rules

pp.:  106 – 106

12.2 Hopf link

pp.:  116 – 122

12.1 The values of the unknots

pp.:  116 – 116

12.3 Trefoil knot

pp.:  122 – 124

12.4 Figure-eight knot

pp.:  124 – 126

12.5 Connection with the Jones polynomial

pp.:  126 – 132

12.6 Bracket connection

pp.:  132 – 134

12.7 Reconstruction theorems

pp.:  134 – 136

Chapter 13. General properties

pp.:  136 – 141

13.2 Recovered field theory

pp.:  141 – 144

13.1 Twist variable

pp.:  141 – 141

13.3 Links in a solid torus

pp.:  144 – 147

13.4 Satellites

pp.:  147 – 152

13.5 Skein relation

pp.:  152 – 155

13.6 Projectors

pp.:  155 – 159

13.7 Borromean rings

pp.:  159 – 161

13.8 Connected sums

pp.:  161 – 167

13.9 Mutations

pp.:  167 – 170

Chapter 14. Unitary groups

pp.:  170 – 175

14.1 Fundamental skein relation

pp.:  175 – 175

14.2 Casimir operator

pp.:  175 – 178

14.3 Composite states

pp.:  178 – 182

14.4 Pattern links

pp.:  182 – 186

14.5 Higher dimensional representations

pp.:  186 – 190

14.6 Polynomial structure

pp.:  190 – 193

14.7 SU(3) examples

pp.:  193 – 195

Chapter 15. Reduced tensor algebra

pp.:  195 – 201

15.1 The restated solution

pp.:  201 – 201

15.2 Outlook

pp.:  201 – 204

15.3 Representation ring

pp.:  204 – 206

15.4 The three-sphere

pp.:  206 – 209

15.5 Reduced tensor algebra

pp.:  209 – 210

15.6 Roots of unity

pp.:  210 – 215

15.7 Special cases

pp.:  215 – 218

Chapter 16. Surgery on three-manifolds

pp.:  218 – 222

16.2 Solid tori

pp.:  222 – 223

16.1 Mapping class group of the torus

pp.:  222 – 222

16.3 Dehn surgery

pp.:  223 – 228

16.4 Links in three-manifolds

pp.:  228 – 231

16.5 Elementary surgeries

pp.:  231 – 234

16.6 Physical interpretation

pp.:  234 – 236

16.7 The fundamental group

pp.:  236 – 238

Chapter 17. Surgery and field theory

pp.:  238 – 242

17.1 Basic pairing

pp.:  242 – 242

17.2 Properties of the Hopf matrix

pp.:  242 – 245

17.3 Elementary surgery operators

pp.:  245 – 251

17.4 Surgery operator

pp.:  251 – 257

17.5 Surgery rules and Kirby moves

pp.:  257 – 260

Chapter 18. Observables in three-manifolds

pp.:  260 – 263

18.2 The manifold RP3

pp.:  263 – 272

18.1 The manifold S2 × S1

pp.:  263 – 263

18.3 Lens spaces

pp.:  272 – 276

18.4 The Poincaré manifold

pp.:  276 – 280

18.5 The manifold T2 § S1

pp.:  280 – 283

Chapter 19. Three-manifold invariant

pp.:  283 – 286

19.2 Values of the invariant

pp.:  286 – 292

19.1 Improved partition function

pp.:  286 – 286

Chapter 20. Abelian surgery invariant

pp.:  292 – 297

20.2 Abelian surgery rules

pp.:  297 – 303

20.1 Compact Abelian theory

pp.:  297 – 297

20.3 Abelian surgery invariant

pp.:  303 – 306

References

pp.:  306 – 317

Subject Index

pp.:  317 – 325

LastPages

pp.:  325 – 329

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