scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1187097

MaRDI QIDQ3840299zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Louis Kauffman

Publication date 10 August 1998

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/244587

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bracket state model

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This paper is an introduction to the relationship between Penrose spin networks and the bracket polynomial. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 recalls the bracket model for the Jones polynomial invariant of knots and links. In Section 3 the author shows how the bracket state model is a natural generalization of the original Penrose spin networks, and how this model is related to the quantum group corresponding to \(SL(2,\mathbb{C})\). In particular, the author shows how the binor identity of the spin networks, the skein identity of the bracket polynomial (at a special value) and the trace identity \(\text{tr} (AB)+ \text{tr} (AB^{-1})= \text{tr} (A)\text{tr}(B)\) of \(SL(2, \mathbb{C})\) are really all the same. The section continues with a discussion of the role of these generalized networks in low dimensional topology. In particular, the author discusses the relationship of these nets with the evaluation of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant of 3-manifolds and corresponding relations with quantum gravity theories (Regge-Ponzano in \(2+1\) and Ashtekar-Smolin-Rovelli in \(3+1)\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0890.00048].

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