Invariants of three-dimensional manifolds

DOI10.1007/BF02247888MaRDI QIDQ1919137zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sergei Gelfand, David Kazhdan

Publication date 31 August 1997

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/58227

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3-manifold invariants monoidal category triangulation

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The authors consider the combinatorial approach to the construction of invariants of a three-dimensional manifold and construct an invariant starting from a monoidal category \(\mathbf C\) without any braiding conditions, i.e commutativity conditions of the form \(X\otimes Y\simeq Y\otimes X\). For any three-dimensional manifold \(M\) with boundary \(S\) and a triangulation \(D\) of \(M\), they construct a finite-dimensional linear space \(W(S,D')\) depending on the restriction \(D'\) of \(D\) to \(S\) (a triangulation of \(S\)) and a vector \(I_{\mathbf C}(M,S,D)\in W(S,D')\). The main result of the paper is that \(I_{\mathbf C}(M,S,D)\) depends only on \(D'\) and not on \(D\) itself. Taking the inductive limit of spaces \(W(S,D')\) over all triangulations \(D'\) of \(S\), the authors construct a space \(K(S)\) and a vector \(I_{\mathbf C}(M,S)\in K(S)\), which is an invariant of a three-dimensional manifold \(M\) with boundary \(S\). In particular, when \(M\) is a closed manifold, \(S=\emptyset\), they have \(K(\emptyset)=k\), and their construction gives an invariant \(I_{\mathbf C}(M)\in k\).

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