TOPOLOGICAL BF THEORIES IN 3 AND 4 DIMENSIONS

被引：85

作者：

CATTANEO, AS

COTTARAMUSINO, P

FROHLICH, J

MARTELLINI, M

机构：

[1] IST NAZL FIS NUCL,SEZ MILANO,I-20133 MILAN,ITALY

[2] ETH ZURICH,INST THEORET PHYS,CH-8093 ZURICH,SWITZERLAND

来源：

JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS | 1995年 / 36卷 / 11期

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D O I：

10.1063/1.531238

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

In this paper we discuss topological BF theories in 3 and 4 dimensions. Observables are associated to ordinary knots and links (in 3 dimensions) and to 2-knots (in 4 dimensions). The vacuum expectation values of such observables give a wide range of invariants. Here we consider mainly the 3 dimensional case, where these invariants include Alexander polynomials, HOMFLY polynomials and Kontsevich integrals. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.

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页码：6137 / 6160

页数：24

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