Invariants of Three-Manifolds, Unitary Representations of the Mapping Class Group, and Numerical Calculations

DOI10.1080/10586458.1997.10504619zbMath1115.57300OpenAlexW2025307000MaRDI QIDQ5756154

Elmar Vogt, Robert Schrader, Michael Karowski

Publication date: 16 August 2007

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.em/1047047192

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50)

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On the Witten–Reshetikhin–Turaev invariants of torus bundles ⋮ Remarks on Chern-Simons theory ⋮ On the relation between two quantum group invariants of 3-cobordisms

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