Knot invariants and new weight systems from general 3D TFTs

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2011.10.008MaRDI QIDQ2428147zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jian Qiu, Maxim Zabzine

Publication date 24 April 2012

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1240

zbMATH Keywords

Chevalley-Eilenberg complexChern-Simons path integralAlexandrov-Kontsevich-Schwarz-Zaboronsky formalism, Batalin-Vilkovisky formalismQ-structureRozansky-Witten weight system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30)

Abstract: We introduce and study the Wilson loops in a general 3D topological field theories (TFTs), and show that the expectation value of Wilson loops also gives knot invariants as in Chern-Simons theory. We study the TFTs within the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) and Alexandrov-Kontsevich-Schwarz-Zaboronsky (AKSZ) framework, and the Ward identities of these theories imply that the expectation value of the Wilson loop is a pairing of two dual constructions of (co)cycles of certain extended graph complex (extended from Kontsevich's graph complex to accommodate the Wilson loop). We also prove that there is an isomorphism between the same complex and certain extended Chevalley-Eilenberg complex of Hamiltonian vector fields. This isomorphism allows us to generalize the Lie algebra weight system for knots to weight systems associated with any homological vector field and its representations. As an example we construct knot invariants using holomorphic vector bundle over hyperKahler manifolds.

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