State-Sum Invariants of 4-Manifolds

DOI10.1142/S0218216597000145zbMATH Open0883.57021arXivhep-th/9409167MaRDI QIDQ4351683FDOQ4351683

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)

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)

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

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