Topological Auantum Field Theories derived from the Kauffman bracket
Topological Auantum Field Theories derived from the Kauffman bracket
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DOI:
10.1016/0040-9383(94)00051-4
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1995-10
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通讯作者:
C. Blanchet;N. Habegger;G. Masbaum;P. Vogel
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作者:
C. Blanchet;N. Habegger;G. Masbaum;P. Vogel
IN [41], Witten has made the remarkable discovery of an intricate relationship between the Jones polynomial [15, 163 and gauge theory.(See also the prophetical article by Atiyah [2].) Although his approach uses the Feynman path integral of Quantum Field Theory, Witten gave convincing arguments that a viable combinatorial approach could be made rigorous using the method of surgery. His discovery includes new 3-manifold invariants (sometimes called Jones-W&en invariants), whose existence was first proven by Reshetikhin and Turaev [30] using quantum groups and Kirby’s surgery calculus [19](see also [20]). Other combinatorial approaches for related invariants were developed by Kohno [21], Turaev and Viro 1361, Lickorish [22, 23], the authors [lo], Morton and Strickland [29], Wenzl [40], Turaev and Wenzl [35].According to Witten, his invariants should belong to a topological quantumfield theory (TQFT). This notion was axiomatized by Atiyah et al.[6, 3](see also [38]). In particular, the states of a manifold, C, form a hermitian vector space, V (E)(more generally V (x) is a module over a commutative ring k with unit and involution), and a cobordism M from x1 to & induces a transition (k-linear map), denoted Zy, from V (&) to V (&). One has that V (0) is the ground ring k, so that if aA= C (ie, A4 is a cobordism from 0 to x), one obtains a vector Z (M) in V (x), given by Z (M)= Z,(l). Thus, M induces a state of 8M. In particular, if M is closed, Z (M)(also denoted by (M) in keeping with the physicists’ expectation value notation) lies in V (0)= k, so that TQFTs, by their very nature, yield