Computation of Lickorish's three manifold invariant using Chern-Simons theory

DOI10.1007/S002200050014zbMATH Open0955.57009arXivhep-th/9901061OpenAlexW2073473149MaRDI QIDQ1970899FDOQ1970899

Authors: Pichai Ramadevi, Swatee Naik 

Publication date: 22 February 2001

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well known that any three-manifold can be obtained by surgery on a framed link in $S^3$. Lickorish gave an elementary proof for the existence of the three-manifold invariants of Witten using a framed link description of the manifold and the formalisation of the bracket polynomial as the Temperley-Lieb Algebra. Kaul determined three-manifold invariants from link polynomials in SU(2) Chern-Simons theory. Lickorish's formula for the invariant involves computation of bracket polynomials of several cables of the link. We describe an easier way of obtaining the bracket polynomial of a cable using representation theory of composite braiding in SU(2) Chern-Simons theory. We prove that the cabling corresponds to taking tensor products of fundamental representations of SU(2). This enables us to verify that the two apparently distinct three-manifold invariants are equivalent for a specific relation of the polynomial variables.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9901061

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zbMATH Keywords

3-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

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