Ghosts, knots and Kontsevich integrals (Q1345103)
From MaRDI portal
!
This is the item page for this Wikibase entity, intended for internal use and editing purposes. Please use the normal view instead:
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 727293
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| default for all languages | No label defined |
||
| English | Ghosts, knots and Kontsevich integrals |
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 727293 |
Statements
Ghosts, knots and Kontsevich integrals (English)
0 references
26 February 1995
0 references
The work provides a physical interpretation of Vassiliev-Kontsevich invariants in the framework of Chern-Simons gauge field theory. Using the Hamiltonian formulation of the theory and computing the expectation values of Wilson loops to some order in the perturbative expansion, it is shown that the instantaneous propagation of Faddeev-Popov ghosts represents ``building blocks'' for the topology of a knot.
0 references
topological quantum field theory
0 references
knot invariants
0 references
0 references
0.88243127
0 references
0.87688684
0 references
0.8632565
0 references
0.8624457
0 references
0.8613718
0 references
0 references
0.85982895
0 references
0 references
