State-Sum Invariants of 4-Manifolds

DOI10.1142/S0218216597000145MaRDI QIDQ4351683zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Louis Crane, Louis Kauffman, D. N. Yetter

Publication date 23 March 1998

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409167

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Abstract: We provide, with proofs, a complete description of the authors' construction of state-sum invariants announced in [CY], and its generalization to an arbitrary (artinian) semisimple tortile category. We also discuss the relationship of these invariants to generalizations of Broda's surgery invariants [Br1,Br2] using techniques developed in the case of the semi-simple sub-quotient of $Rep(U_q(s{l}_2))$ ($q$ a principal $4r^{th}$ root of unity) by Roberts [Ro1]. We briefly discuss the generalizations to invariants of 4-manifolds equipped with 2-dimensional (co)homology classes introduced by Yetter [Y6] and Roberts [Ro2], which are the subject of the sequel. (citations refer to bibliography in the paper)

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