Quantum topology / Louis H. Kauffman, Randy A. Baadhio
Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)
1993
Information About
This book constitutes a review volume on the relatively new subject of Quantum Topology. It is a review volume in the form of a snapshot of ongoing research activity. This activity goes across the board, among problems, techniques, and mysteries in topology and in mathematical physics. The snapshot was taken at a special session of the American Mathematical Society on Topological Quantum Field Theory.
Additional Details
- Title
- Quantum topology / Louis H. Kauffman, Randy A. Baadhio
- Creators
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- Kauffman, Louis H., 1945-
- Subject
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- Topology
- Quantum theory
- Publisher
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- World Scientific, 1993
- National Library Board Singapore, 1993
- Contributors
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- Baadhio, Randy A.
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill.
- Table of Contents
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- Introduction to quantum topology -- Knot theory, exotic spheres and global gravitational anomalies -- A diagrammatic theory of knotted surfaces -- Four dimensional TQFT; a triptych -- A categorical construction of 4D -- Topological quantum field theories -- Evaluating the Crane-Yetter invariant -- Canonically quantized lattice -- Chern-Simon theory -- Extended structures in topological quantum field theory -- A method for computing the arf invariants of links -- Differential equations for loop expectations in quantum gauge theories -- Triangulations, categories and extended topological field theories...
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.