The Jones-Witten invariant for flows on a 3-dimensional manifold (Q1328212): Difference between revisions

The authors generalize the Jones-Witten polynomial invariants for links on closed compact orientable 3-manifolds, for a vector field with an invariant measure. In the case of measures supported on a finite number of closed orbits and uniformly distributed along them, the new invariant is essentially Witten's formula for links (the closed orbits) on the 3- manifold. Furthermore in the case that the gauge group (used in the definition) is abelian, explicit computations of these invariants are given by the authors.