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

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  1. Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Łódź, Pomorska 149/153, PL-90-236 Łódź, Poland

Abstract

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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Banach Center Publications
1997/39/1
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Pages:
201-209
Main language of publication
English
Published
1997
Exact and natural sciences