Lectures on quantum topology in dimension three. Lectures of the SMF school ``Geometric and quantum topology in dimension 3'', CIRM, Luminy, France, June 2014
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instance of: scholarly article
zbMATH Open document ID: 1360.57003
publication date: 2016-10-06T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57-02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M27
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57-06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57N10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55N35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00B15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F36
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 18G40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53D05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 32Q60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20C30
zbMATH DE Number: 6633241
zbMATH Keywords: AJ conjecture
zbMATH Keywords: Khovanov homology
zbMATH Keywords: Heegaard Floer homology
zbMATH Keywords: colored Jones polynomial
zbMATH Keywords: \(A\)-polynomial
zbMATH Keywords: \(q\)-holonomicity
zbMATH Keywords: knot
zbMATH Keywords: link
zbMATH Keywords: braid
zbMATH Keywords: tangle
zbMATH Keywords: diagram
zbMATH Keywords: unknot
zbMATH Keywords: knot invariant
zbMATH Keywords: knot genus
zbMATH Keywords: knot fibering
zbMATH Keywords: Thurston norm
zbMATH Keywords: recurrence ideal
zbMATH Keywords: Lee-Rasmussen spectral sequence
zbMATH Keywords: Khovanov-Rozansky homology
zbMATH Keywords: HOMFLYPT-polynomial
zbMATH Keywords: Heegaard splitting
zbMATH Keywords: handlebody
zbMATH Keywords: sutured manifold
zbMATH Keywords: holomorphic disk
zbMATH Keywords: Alexander-Conway polynomial
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author: Thang T. Q. Le
author: Christine Lescop
author: Robert Lipshitz
author: Paul Turner
title: Lectures on quantum topology in dimension three. Lectures of the SMF school ``Geometric and quantum topology in dimension 3'', CIRM, Luminy, France, June 2014
published in: Panoramas et Synthèses
review text: The four articles of this volume comprise the notes of four lecture series on quantum topology in dimension three: An introduction to the subject and lectures on the AJ conjecture, on Khovanov homology, and on Heegaard Floer homology. The pertinent methods, developed over the past two decades, have brought forth spectacular results in knot theory, such as detection of the unknot, of the knot genus, of knot fibering, and of the Thurston norm. The four parts will be reviewed individually. \newline The first part, written in French by \textit{C. Lescop}, ``Introduction à quelques invariants des variétés de dimension \(3\) et leurs entrelacs'' (Introduction to some invariants of manifolds of dimension \(3\) and their links), supplies an introductory survey of the items announced in the title, leading from the basic notions all the way to the material discussed in the three remaining articles of the book. It provides a thorough and fairly complete inventory of definitions, concepts and results, including a description of the present state of the art and taking into account the historical development. Due to numerous references to the comprehensive literature list, it can serve as an excellent source for the beginner as well as for the expert. Section 1 introduces manifolds of the various categories, mentioning exotic spheres and triangulation related results. Section 2 centers around the fundamental group, classical homology and cobordism. Section 3 deals with problems special to \(4\)-manifold theory, quadratic form and signature, and the difference in classification with respect to the topological and the differentiable cases. The remaining sections are about \(3\)-manifolds, in Section 4 about decompositions (connected sum, Heegaard and Jaco-Shalen-Johannson), thr Poincaré conjecture and the geometrization conjecture. Section 5 defines knots and links, and some classical invariants like genus, unknotting number, Alexander polynomial, knot exterior. Dehn surgery is int…
reviewed by: Dieter Erle
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6633241