scientific article; zbMATH DE number 732165

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Authors Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, M. Martellini

Publication date 24 October 1996

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9407097

zbMATH Keywords

2-knotslinking numbersquantum field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

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• Topological field theory and quantum holonomy representations of motion groups
• 4-d Chern-Simons theory: higher gauge symmetry and holographic aspects
• Balloons and hoops and their universal finite-type invariant, BF theory, and an ultimate Alexander invariant
• Wilson surfaces and higher dimensional knot invariants
• Quantum field theoretic representation of Wilson surfaces. I: Higher coadjoint orbit theory
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• Applications of W algebras to BF theories, QCD and 4D gravity
• Hamiltonian bf theory and projected Borromean rings
• Topological BF theories in 3 and 4 dimensions
• Cabled Wilson loops in BF theories
• Invariants of higher-dimensional knots and topological quantum field theories.
• Quantum gravity as a sum over surfaces
• Surface observables, 2-knot invariants, and nonabelian electric fluxes
• Itsy bitsy topological field theory

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