Skeins and mapping class groups

DOI10.1017/S0305004100071917zbMath0831.57007MaRDI QIDQ4299871

Justin Roberts

Publication date: 11 August 1994

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Heegaard splittingsprojective unitary representations of the mapping class groups of surfacesskein algebras of surfacestopological quantum field theory for \(\text{SU(2)}\)Witten invariants of 3-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Related Items (14)

On the Witten–Reshetikhin–Turaev invariants of torus bundles ⋮ IRREDUCIBILITY OF SOME QUANTUM REPRESENTATIONS OF MAPPING CLASS GROUPS ⋮ On central extensions of mapping class groups ⋮ Quantum mechanics and nonabelian theta functions for the gauge group SU(2) ⋮ Refined Chern–Simons theory in genus two ⋮ 𝑆𝐿_{𝑛}-character varieties as spaces of graphs ⋮ SO(3) quantum invariants are dense ⋮ A 𝑞-series identity via the 𝔰𝔩₃ colored Jones polynomials for the (2,2𝔪)-torus link ⋮ Some asymptotics of topological quantum field theory via skein theory ⋮ The A-polynomial from the noncommutative viewpoint ⋮ The Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev representation of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra ⋮ On topological quantum computing with mapping class group representations ⋮ Maslov index, lagrangians, mapping class groups and TQFT ⋮ Skein modules and the noncommutative torus

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