On the relation between two quantum group invariants of 3-cobordisms

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(95)00062-3MaRDI QIDQ2565047zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anna Beliakova, B. Durhuus

Publication date 7 January 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9502010

zbMATH Keywords

quantum groupsReshetikhin-Turaev invariantsthree-dimensional cobordismTuraev-Viro invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Cobordism in PL-topology (57Q20) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50)

Abstract: We prove in the context of quantum groups at even roots of unity that a Turaev-Viro type invariant of a 3-dimensional cobordism M equals the tensor product of the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of M and M*, where M* denotes M with orientation reversed.

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