Hopf diagrams and quantum invariants

DOI10.2140/AGT.2005.5.1677zbMATH Open1116.57011arXivmath/0505119OpenAlexW2133229723MaRDI QIDQ813183FDOQ813183

Authors: Alexis Virelizier, Alain Bruguiéres 

Publication date: 30 January 2006

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant, Turaev's TQFT, and many related constructions rely on the encoding of certain tangles (n-string links, or ribbon n-handles) as n-forms on the coend of a ribbon category. We introduce the monoidal category of Hopf diagrams, and describe a universal encoding of ribbon string links as Hopf diagrams. This universal encoding is an injective monoidal functor and admits a straightforward monoidal retraction. Any Hopf diagram with n legs yields a n-form on the coend of a ribbon category in a completely explicit way. Thus computing a quantum invariant of a 3-manifold reduces to the purely formal computation of the associated Hopf diagram, followed by the evaluation of this diagram in a given category (using in particular the so-called Kirby elements).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505119

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zbMATH Keywords

string linksHopf diagramsquantum invariants of 3-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50)

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