scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1054457

MaRDI QIDQ4352073zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Louis Funar

Publication date 5 February 1998

zbMATH Keywords

cobordismsconformal field theoryopen 3-manifoldstopological quantum field theoryWhitehead manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wild embeddings (57M30) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

Review text

The author constructs a topological quantum field theory (TQFT) in dimension three from the 3-manifold invariants coming from the conformal field theory associated to a simple Lie algebra due to \textit{T. Kohno} in [Topology 31, No. 2, 203-230 (1992; Zbl 0762.57011) and Contemp. Math. 175, 193-217 (1994; Zbl 0823.57004)]. By regarding an open manifold as an infinite composition of cobordisms, the TQFT associates an inverse system of vector spaces whose limit is a topological invariant. Explicit computations are performed to study contractible open 3-manifolds which are not homeomorphic to Euclidean 3-space.

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